Scholars of gender in the Caribbean have been notably successful in replacing narratives that mask, or celebrate, white colonial and post-colonial domination with studies that delineate the social, economic and political contributions of multiple groups. This scholarship, which so beautifully captures gendered experience through lenses of race, class, ethnicity and nationality, is a first step toward an even more difficult project: the reworking of those insights, those fragments of history and culture, into new wholes. This paper borrows Derek Walcott's metaphor of reassembling the fragments of a broken vase in order to explore the possibilities for writing gendered narratives of Caribbean society that incorporate the diverse and complex inter-workings of the Caribbean's multiple parts. Can theories of power allow us to see the interactions of gender across class, race and nation, to glimpse the complex calculus that empowers yet limits power? The paper reviews recent literature that sets out to assemble those fragments of a broken vase.