Section I - private and public spheres of women's lives: part I - the domestic domain and the community, reputation and respectability reconsidered - Jamaica, J. Besson, marriage and concubinage - Curacao, E. Abraham-Van der Mark, changing roles in life cycles - Monserrat, L. Mihelic Pulsipher, women's place in every place - Barbuda and Dominica, R. Berleant-Schiller, W.H. Maurer; part II - the intersection of reproduction and production, women in Guadeloupe, H. Dagenais, women's political organizations - Guyana, L. Peake, neighbourhood networks and national politics - Suiriname, R. Brana-Schute, the migration experience - St Nevis, K. Fog Olwig, migration, development and gender division of labour - Puerto Rico and Venezuela, J. Monk, C.S. Alexander. Section II - economic roles of Caribbean women: part I - rural employment, small farm production and gender - Barbados, C. Barrow, women small farmers - Grenada, J.S. Brierley, women in agriculture - Trinidad, I.S. Harry, smallholder agriculture in transition - Cuba, J. Stubbs, development and gender divisions of labour - Eastern Caribbean, J.H. Momsen; part II - urban employment, garment and textile production - Trinidad, R. Reddock, gender and ethnicity in factory work - Trinidad, K.A. Yelvington, tourism - Jamaica, L. McKay, gender and new technology, R. Pearson.