Intended as an introductory sourcebook, Olive Senior provides a background to Caribbean literature, politics and society.This text takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of women and gender issues in the Caribbean. Olive Senior, using her imaginative skills as a poet, has written a readable books based on a substantial academic examinationof women's lives and work in fourteen countries of the Caribbean. In addition she uses examples from literature and popular culture, adn the voices of the women themselves.Caribbean: ISER, University of the West Indies