Gender Inequality and Women’s Citizenship (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)

Gender Inequality and Women’s Citizenship combines cases across Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago to highlight the range of systemic inequalities that impact women in the Anglo-Caribbean.

Using empirical and secondary data and drawing on feminist theoretical insights, Yonique Campbell and Tracy-Ann Johnson-Myers examine a range of pertinent and intersecting social, political and economic challenges facing women in the Anglo-Caribbean. The issues explored include gender-based violence, barriers to women in politics, the effects of COVID-19 on women, and debates around the illegality of abortion rights and failure to protect the health of women by allowing them to exercise autonomy over their bodies. They raise questions about systemic inequalities resulting from patriarchal gender relations, heteronormativity, women's social and economic status, and state inaction.

This book is unique in its interdisciplinary analysis of gender inequality in the Anglo-Caribbean, mapping the intersection of women’s multiple identities and positionalities to determine the obstacles they encounter. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of International Relations, Caribbean Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Development Studies, Sociology and Anthropology.

Yonique Campbell is a senior lecturer in the Department of Government at The University of the West Indies, Mona. She is the author of Citizenship on the Margins: State Power, Security and Precariousness in 21st-Century Jamaica (2020) and co-editor (with Professor John Connell) of COVID in the Islands: A Comparative Perspective on the Caribbean and the Pacific (2021). Her work has also appeared in Commonwealth and Comparative Politics and books published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Routledge.

Tracy-Ann Johnson-Myers is a researcher and a former lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of the West Indies, Mona. She is the author of The Mixed Member Proportional System, Providing Greater Representation for Women? A Case Study of the New Zealand Experience (2017). She has researched and published on gender and identity politics in the Anglo-Caribbean and Canada. She adopts an intersectional approach to research to gain a more nuanced understanding of how different social categories, such as race, gender, sexuality, class, and ability, interact and shape people’s experiences of oppression or privilege.