Eudine V. Barriteau is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies, UWI, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. She is the author of The Political Economy of Gender in the Twentieth Century Caribbean (2001). She has published several articles including “Confronting Power and Politics: Feminist Theorizing of Gender in Commonwealth Caribbean Societies”, in Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism Vol. 3(2), 57-92, and “Women Entrepreneurs and Economic Marginality: Rethinking Caribbean Women’s Economic Relations”, in Patricia Mohammed, ed., Gendered Realities: Essays in Caribbean Feminist Thought (2002). She is currently coordinating three Research Projects that collectively examine Caribbean political economy and social change from the perspective of gender. She is the inaugural Dame Nita Barrow Women in Development Fellow, OISE, University of Toronto.

Abstract:    Constructing Feminist Knowledge In the Commonwealth Caribbean In the Era of 
                     Globalization