Bridget Brereton is Professor of History, former President of the Association of Caribbean Historians and former Deputy Principal of the St. Augustine Campus of the UWI in Trinidad & Tobago. She has written extensively in the areas of gender and women’s studies in history. She is the author of Race Relations in Colonial Trinidad (1979), A History of Modern Trinidad (1991) and Law, Justice and Empire: The Colonial Career of John Gorrie (1997). She co-edited (with Verene Shepherd & Barbara Bailey) Engendering History (1995) and edited volume 5 of the UNESCO General History of the Caribbean. (2000)