| Preface | xiii |
| Acknowledgments | xxiii |
| Introduction: Gender and the Caribbean Woman | 1 |
| Part I | Gender and the Social Order | |
| Introduction | 70 |
| What Are Women's Issues? | |
| 98 |
| "Woman's Rights" | 99 |
| 104 |
| "Making the Tropics Safe for the White Man" | 105 |
| "How to Help Better the Economic Condition of the West Indies" | 107 |
| "Women as Leaders Nationally and Racially" | 108 |
| 111 |
| "Jamaica's Victory" | 112 |
| "The Age of Woman" | 115 |
| 117 |
| Letter to the Editor of Plain Talk on Women and Unemployment | 118 |
| Women and Politics | |
| 122 |
| "Manifesto of 1936" | 123 |
| "Speech at the Negro Progress Convention, 1936 (British Guiana)" | 124 |
| 126 |
| "Political Aspirations and Achievements of Women in British Guiana" | 127 |
| 131 |
| "Should Our Women Enter Politics?" | 131 |
| 134 |
| "Women and Politics" | 135 |
| Women and Conflicts: Race, Work, and Social Welfare | |
| 138 |
| "Women's Clubs of Jamaica" | 139 |
| 141 |
| "Women, Work, and Wages" | 141 |
| "We Must Save the Children" | 143 |
| 146 |
| "The Illegitimacy Question: From the Top Down" | 146 |
| After the 1930s Uprisings | |
| 154 |
| "Elma Francois' Speech in Her Self-Defence at Her Sedition Trial" | 155 |
| 157 |
| "Reflections on the Strike" | 157 |
| 160 |
| "Middle Class Inertia" | 160 |
| 164 |
| "Neglect and Indifference" | 165 |
| 166 |
| "A Reply to Judith de Cordova | 167 |
| 169 |
| "Discrimination" | 169 |
| "This Term 'Native'" | 172 |
| Culture | |
| 176 |
| "The Culture Mania" | 177 |
| 179 |
| "Folklore in Trinidad" | 180 |
| 185 |
| "To Our Young Artists: A Hope" | 186 |
| "Art Appreciation" | 188 |
| 191 |
| "West Indian Dance" | 192 |
| "The Little Carib and West Indian Dance" | 195 |
| 199 |
| "'Their Missing of the Point Is Deliberate'" | 200 |
| The War Years: Beyond the Boundaries | |
| 206 |
| "Portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt" | 207 |
| 209 |
| "Letter to W.E.B. DuBois on Pan-Africanism" | 209 |
| The Postwar Years in the Caribbean and Abroad | |
| 216 |
| "Women's Votes Will Start a New Era in British Guiana's Moribund Politics" | 217 |
| 220 |
| "The Domestic Servant Problem Styled 'Too Hot to Handle'" | 221 |
| 224 |
| "Working Girls Need Moral and Economic Security" | 225 |
| 228 |
| "British Guiana: Our Case" | 229 |
| 233 |
| "The Thinking Process ... Defies Jailing'" | 234 |
| "The Caribbean Community in Britain" | 236 |
| Part II | The Social Order and the Symbolic Order | |
| Introduction | 242 |
| 249 |
| Excerpt from A Study on the Historiography of the British West Indies to the End of the Nineteenth Century | 250 |
| 258 |
| Excerpt from My Mother Who Fathered Me | 259 |
| 284 |
| Excerpt from A Century of West Indian Education | 285 |
| 292 |
| "The Social Framework" | 292 |
| 302 |
| "Lady Nugent's Journal" | 303 |
| "We Must Learn to Sit Down Together and Talk about a Little Culture: Reflections on West Indian Writing and Criticism, Part One" | 329 |
| 355 |
| "Language and Dialect in Jamaica" | 356 |
| 365 |
| "Akan Slave Rebellions in the British Caribbean" | 366 |
| 393 |
| "The Arrivals of Black Women" | 394 |
| "Reluctant Matriarchs" | 407 |
| 414 |
| "The Nkuyu: Spirit Messengers of the Kumina" | 415 |
| Selections and Credits | 447 |
| References | 451 |
