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Title Bindi : the multifaceted lives of Indo-Caribbean women / edited by Rosanne Kanhai
Published Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 251 pages) : illustrations
Contents Women in the Ramayana tradition in Trinidad / Sherry-Ann Singh -- Rings, gifts and shekels : marriage and dowry within the Indo-Muslim community in Trinidad : 1930 to the globalized present / Halima Sa'adia Kassim -- Unlikely matriarchs : rural Indo-Trinidadian women in the domestic sphere / Shaheeda Hosein -- Finding self in the transition from East to West / Valerie Youssef -- No pure place of resistance : reflections on being Ms Mastana Bahar 2000 / Gabrielle Jamela Hosein -- Women as invisible healers : traditional midwives in Trinidad and Tobago / Kumar Mahabir -- Identity, activism and spirituality in the art of Bernadette Persaud / Brenda Gopeesingh -- Breaking with tradition : hybridity, identity and resistance in Indo-Caribbean women's writing / Anita Baksh -- Beyond\ fragile homes : Indo-Trinidadian women constructing habitable narratives / Paula E. Morgan
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Sequel to: Matikor
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Subject Women, East Indian -- Caribbean, English-speaking
Women, East Indian -- Religious life -- Caribbean, English-speaking
Women, East Indian -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Social conditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
East Indian American women -- Social conditions
Women, East Indian
English-speaking Caribbean Area
Trinidad and Tobago
Form Electronic book
Author Kanhai, Rosanne.
ISBN 9781461906834
1461906830
Other Titles Multifaceted lives of Indo-Caribbean women