{"product_id":"gender-negotiations-among-indians-in-trinidad-1917-1947-paperback","title":"Gender Negotiations Among Indians in Trinidad 1917-1947 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eP. Mohammed\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is about the struggles of female and male descendants of Indian indentured migrants in Trinidad in the first half of the twentieth century, each desiring to preserve some aspects of the gender system brought from India between 1845 and 1917, which were important to their continued definition of ethnic identity and community in Trinidad. At the same time the situation of migration allows for challenges to the caste system of Hinduism and, for women and some men, new opportunities to confront the more restricting aspect of Indian patriarchy which followed them across the seas from India.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePATRICIA MOHAMMED is Head of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies at the University of West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica. She has published extensively on gender and feminist studies and is co-editor of \u003cem\u003eGender in Caribbean Development \u003c\/em\u003eand co-author with Althea Perkins of\u003cem\u003e Caribbean Women at the Crossroads.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 319\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 16, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42121894559879,"sku":"9781349427451","price":194.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/ccb7ffb7bc609787a80f064904b8d83e.webp?v=1732556652","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/gender-negotiations-among-indians-in-trinidad-1917-1947-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}