ABSTRACT
The essays in this collection focus attention on the enormous contribution made by women in maintaining family relations in situations of both racial and gender domination.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Chapter One|10 pages
Introduction
part One|88 pages
Kinship and Family Structure
chapter Chapter Two|8 pages
Hypotheses and the Problem of Explanation (1956)
chapter Chapter Three|17 pages
Culture and Social Structure in the Caribbean (1963)
chapter Chapter Four|19 pages
The Matrifocal Family (1973)
chapter Chapter Five|22 pages
Hierarchy and the Dual Marriage System in West Indian Society (1987)
chapter Chapter Six|18 pages
Family, Social Change, and Social Policy in the West Indies (1982)
part Two|103 pages
Conflict and Difference: Race, Culture, and Politics
