YOU CAN'T GET ME OUT OF THE RACE: WOMEN AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NEGRIL, JAMAICA, WEST INDIES (GENDER, TOURISM, HISTORY).
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Title
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YOU CAN'T GET ME OUT OF THE RACE: WOMEN AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NEGRIL, JAMAICA, WEST INDIES (GENDER, TOURISM, HISTORY).
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Identifier
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AAI8611335
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identifier
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8611335
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Creator
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D'AMICO-SAMUELS, DEBORAH ANNE.
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Contributor
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Joan P. Mencher
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Date
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1986
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Anthropology, Cultural
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Abstract
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This dissertation explores the relationship of gender to the process of economic development, within the context of a New World African culture and a fundamentally unequal global economy. The Introductory Chapter traces the history of the interaction of West African gender ideology with major economic transformations in Jamaica, and with the infusion of Euro-American ideas about gender, color and class which accompanied these changes. The next four chapters examine this interaction in a particular place (Negril) and within a specific time period (1950-1980). Chapter Two presents a descriptive overview of the subsistence economy of Negril and women's place within it, of the plans of the Jamaican government to develop Negril for tourism and of the struggle of Negrillians to secure a share in the tourist dollar. In Chapter Three, the latter is examined more closely through case studies of Negrillians' responses to tourism and the class, color and gender patterns which these responses reveal. While Chapter Two and Three look at the relationship of small property-holders in Negril to tourism, and more briefly at wage laborers employed in both formal and informal establishments, Chapter Four describes the role which those with neither property nor jobs in Negril have played in its development. This chapter focuses on the history of a squatters market created by these people; Chapter Five looks at gender differences within this least formal sector of Negril's tourist industry. In the Conclusion, the Negril case material detailed in Chapters 2-5 is analyzed for what it reveals about the role of gender in the process of economic development within a color and class stratified nation and world.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Anthropology
