Rhoda Reddock is emerita professor of Gender, Social Change and Development and former deputy campus principal of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus. For many years, she served as head of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies. She is also a former lecturer in sociology at the UWI St. Augustine and associate lecturer in the Women and Development programme at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. An activist in the Caribbean Women’s movement she was a founding member and first chair of the Caribbean Association or Feminist Research and Action (CAFRA). A former president of Research Committee-32 (Women and Society) of the International Sociological Association (1994-1998) she is currently a Board member of RC 05 Racism, Nationalism, Indigeneity and Ethnicity and a member of the ISA Executive Committee. She has also served on the Council of the Caribbean Studies Association. Her numerous publications include: Women, Labour and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago: A History, Zed Books, 1994 which was named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book for 1995, Plantation Women: International Experiences, Berg, 1998 co- edited with Shobhita Jain, Caribbean Sociology: Introductory Readings edited with Christine Barrow, 2000, and the edited collection Interrogating Caribbean Masculinities, The UWI Press, 2004 winner of the best-selling textbook award of 2007, the co-edited volume, Sex Power and Taboo, Ian Randle, 2009 and most recently with Encarnacion Gutierrez-Rodriguez, Decolonial Perspective on Entangled Inequalities, Anthem Press, 2021. She has also published over eighty peer reviewed articles and book chapters
In October 2001, she received the UWI Vice Chancellor’s Award for All-Round Excellence in Teaching and Administration, Research and Public service and in July 2002 was recipient of the Seventh CARICOM Triennial Award for Women at the Heads of Government Meeting of the Caribbean Community in Guyana. In 2004, Prof. Reddock was a recipient of a distinguished Fulbright New Century Scholars Award and in 2005-2006; she was visiting professor at the African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa. On 8, March 2008 she received an International Woman of Courage Award from the US Department of State and an honorary doctorate from the University of the Western Cape in South Africa in March 2012 and in October 2014, the UWI-NGC Research Award 2014 – Most Impacting Research Project – Breaking the Silence: A Multisectoral Approach to Preventing and Responding to Child Sexual Abuse and Incest in Trinidad and Tobago (with Dr. Sandra Reid). Prof. Reddock is currently an elected expert of the UN Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and an executive council member of the International Sociological Association (ISA)
Supervisors: Maria Mies
In October 2001, she received the UWI Vice Chancellor’s Award for All-Round Excellence in Teaching and Administration, Research and Public service and in July 2002 was recipient of the Seventh CARICOM Triennial Award for Women at the Heads of Government Meeting of the Caribbean Community in Guyana. In 2004, Prof. Reddock was a recipient of a distinguished Fulbright New Century Scholars Award and in 2005-2006; she was visiting professor at the African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa. On 8, March 2008 she received an International Woman of Courage Award from the US Department of State and an honorary doctorate from the University of the Western Cape in South Africa in March 2012 and in October 2014, the UWI-NGC Research Award 2014 – Most Impacting Research Project – Breaking the Silence: A Multisectoral Approach to Preventing and Responding to Child Sexual Abuse and Incest in Trinidad and Tobago (with Dr. Sandra Reid). Prof. Reddock is currently an elected expert of the UN Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and an executive council member of the International Sociological Association (ISA)
Supervisors: Maria Mies
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Proceeding from a premise that gender influences sexuality and sexual behaviour, Sex, Power and Taboo provides an interdisciplinary approach to the exploration of how gender affects HIV risk and prevention. The paradigm of HIV and AIDS research is shifted by illuminating the influence of gender ideologies, norms and power relationships on sexuality, and the impact of gender to HIV risk and prevention within and outside of the Caribbean.
The contributors are Caribbean and international, and discuss gender and sexuality for the academic, for those in the public health service as well as social policymakers. Sex, Power and Taboo contributes to the research-based interventions to aid the prevention of HIV and AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases and will assist in the design, implementation and evaluation of programmes addressing the AIDS epidemic.
Using specific case studies of historical and contemporary plantations, an account is given of the history of female labour, focusing on the colonial and post-colonial eras. The essays examine reasons for women's degraded status and emphasize, in particular, issues relating to migrant workers.
The gradual move away from traditional family roles is, to some extent, reflected in variations in the position of the female plantation worker. However, where inequalities in class and status continue to characterize plantation life, capitalist and patriarchal control prevails.
Both chilling and bracing, the sufferings of plantation labourers may seem remote to most of us, but they are still very much part of the contemporary world. Providing a close insight into the lives of the female protagonists, these essays have given an opportunity for their stories to be heard.
Papers by Rhoda E Reddock
Proceeding from a premise that gender influences sexuality and sexual behaviour, Sex, Power and Taboo provides an interdisciplinary approach to the exploration of how gender affects HIV risk and prevention. The paradigm of HIV and AIDS research is shifted by illuminating the influence of gender ideologies, norms and power relationships on sexuality, and the impact of gender to HIV risk and prevention within and outside of the Caribbean.
The contributors are Caribbean and international, and discuss gender and sexuality for the academic, for those in the public health service as well as social policymakers. Sex, Power and Taboo contributes to the research-based interventions to aid the prevention of HIV and AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases and will assist in the design, implementation and evaluation of programmes addressing the AIDS epidemic.
Using specific case studies of historical and contemporary plantations, an account is given of the history of female labour, focusing on the colonial and post-colonial eras. The essays examine reasons for women's degraded status and emphasize, in particular, issues relating to migrant workers.
The gradual move away from traditional family roles is, to some extent, reflected in variations in the position of the female plantation worker. However, where inequalities in class and status continue to characterize plantation life, capitalist and patriarchal control prevails.
Both chilling and bracing, the sufferings of plantation labourers may seem remote to most of us, but they are still very much part of the contemporary world. Providing a close insight into the lives of the female protagonists, these essays have given an opportunity for their stories to be heard.
recognition of diversity and difference to challenge many every day
assumptions about normalcy. I seek to peel away the layers of myth and
prejudice surrounding a subject area that is quite complex and largely
misunderstood as I explore the concepts of sex/gender identity and
diverse gender expression and the different ways in which these are
experienced cross–culturally and within our region.
Kumari Jayawardena and Rachel Kurian. Class, Patriarchy and Ethnicity on Sri Lankan Plantations: Two Centuries of Power and Protest. Hyderabad, Telangana, India: Orient BlackSwan, 2015. 348 pp.
Rana P. Behal. One Hundred Years of Servitude: Political Economy of Tea Plantations in Colonial Assam. New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2014. xiii + 387 pp.
it argues for greater consideration of the plantation and post-colonial histories of former British colonies in the Americas and Asia with special focus on colonial governance, plantation labour and labour struggle and organisation, gender and patriarchy and contemporary impact.