The paper considers the impacts of feminist activism on CARICOM
society over the past 30 years. Using the author’s experience,
it considers feminism’s influence on women in leadership
positions and how this changed their politics and practice
as they sought to influence the politics and programmes of
women’s organizations, NGOs, government policy, key
institutions and societal attitudes to women, taking account
of the resistance encountered and support received along the
way.
It argues that feminist activism working from within and
outside various institutions achieved some of its objectives,
although not always in ways that were favourable to
its cause. It recognizes feminism as an on-going dialogic
process that, despite its limitations, has the capacity
to transform relationships and systems that are oppressive.
Finally, it attempts to draw out the implications for
feminist activism in today’s changing context.
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