Gabrielle Hosein is a Lecturer in the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. She has published in Feminist Review and contributed chapters to edited collections.Jane Parpart is Research Professor in the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance at McCormack Graduate School in the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is coeditor with Marysia Zalewski of Rethinking the Man Question: Sex, Gender and Violence in InternationalRelations (2008), and co-author of Women, Employment and the Family in the International Division of Labour (2013)

• Introduction: Rethinking Gendered Negotiations in Caribbean Policy and Politics, Gabrielle Hosein and Jane Parpart / Part I: Women’s Political Leadership: Possibilities and Limits for Women / 1. Crossing over the Barriers: A Historical Journey of Women’s Political Leadership in the Anglophone Caribbean, Gabrielle Hosein /2. Women’s Political Leadership in Trinidad and Tobago, Understandings, Experiences and Negotiations, Aleah N. Ranjitsingh/ Part II: National Gender Policies: Negotiating Masculinities in Gender Mainstreaming / 3. Historicizing National Gender Policies in the English Speaking Caribbean, Deborah McFee / 4. Masculinities and the Practice of Dominica’sNational Gender Policy, Ramona Biholar / 5. The Patriarchal State and the Development of Gender Policy in Jamaica, Maziki Thame and Dhanaraj Thakur/ Part III: Gender Quotas: ParliamentaryProvisions without Power? / 6. Getting to One-Third? Creating Legislative Access for Women to Political Space in Guyana, Natalie Persadie / 7. Advancing Gender Justice? The Opportunities, Resistances, and Limitations of Guyana’s Quota System, Iman Khan / Part IV: Transformational Leadership: Feminist Pedagogies, Neo-liberal Empowerment / 8. Feminist/Womanist Advocacy Toward Transformational Leadership in the Anglophone Caribbean: The Interplay of Individual and Collective Agency, Shirley Campbell / 9. Enactments, Contestations, and Possibilities of Women’sTransformational Leadership in the Anglophone Caribbean, Denise Blackstock /Afterword

By relying heavily on regional insights, theoretical formulations and the experience of direct feminist state engagement of gender experts such as Barriteau, Patricia Mohammed, Linnette Vassal and Rawwida Baksh among others, the book signals a coming of age of indigenous Caribbean ideas in feminist and gender scholarship to matters that pertain to gender mainstreaming and gender policy in the Region.