Andaiye

The Point is to Change the World

Selected Writings of Andaiye
Herausgeber: Trotz, Alissa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An inspiring collection from one of the Caribbean's most vital political figures.

Produktdetails

• Black Critique
• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9780745341279
• ISBN-10: 0745341276
• Artikelnr.: 58341284

Autorenporträt

Andaiye (1942 -2019) was a Guyanese social, political, and gender rights activist, who has been described as a transformative figure in the region's political struggle. She was an early member of the executive of the Working People's Alliance (WPA) in Guyana, alongside Walter Rodney. A founding member of the women's development organisation Red Thread in Guyana in 1986, Andaiye was also an executive member of the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action (CAFRA).

Inhaltsangabe

FOREWORDS
Andaiye's Radical Imagination-with Special Reference to Hern Engagement
with the Working People's Alliance - Clem Seecharan
Between Home and Street: Andaiye's Revolutionary Vision - Robin D. G.
Kelley
The Principle of Justice as a Labor of Caring - Honor Ford-Smith
Editor's Note: On the Politics of Precision
Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
PART ONE - LEARNING LESSONS FROM PAST ORGANIZING
Section I - The Good and Bad of Some Earlier Feminist and Left Organizing
in the Region
1. The Angle You Look from Determines What You See: Towards a Critique of
Feminist Politics and Organizing in the Caribbean [2002]
2. The Historic Centrality of Mr. Slime: George Lamming's Pursuit of Class
Betrayal in Novels and Speeches [2003]
3. The Grenada Revolution, the Caribbean Left, and the Regional Women's
Movement: Preliminary Notes on One Journey [2010]
4. Conversations about Organizing: Revised Excerpts from an Interview with
Andaiye by David Scott [2004]
Section II - Notes on the Guyana Indian/African Race Divide, and on
Organizing within and against it
5. 1964: The Rupture of Neighborliness and its Legacy for Indian/African
Relations [2008; 2018] (with D. Alissa Trotz)
6. Organizing within and against Race Divides: Lessons from Guyana's
African Society for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa, Indian
Political Revolutionary Associates, and the Early Working People's Alliance
[2008, 2017/2018]
7. Three Letters against Race Violence [2004, 2008]
PART TWO - A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE: STARTING WITH THE UNWAGED CARING WORK
OF MAINLY WOMEN WE REACH ALL SECTORS
Section I - Why and How to Count Unwaged Work
8. Valuing Unwaged Work: A Preparatory Brief for CARICOM Ministers
Responsible for Women's Affairs Attending the 4th World Conference on Women
[1994]
9. Grassroots Women Learning to Count their Unwaged Work: Summary Report on
a 2001-2002 Trial [2009]
10. Looking at the Legalization of Abortion from the Perspective of Women
as Unwaged Carers [1993]
Section II - Breaking the Frontier between Home and Street, Unwaged and
Waged
11. Strike for a Millennium which Values all Women's Work and all Women's
Lives: A Call to Action [2000]
12. The Impact of the IMF Structural Adjustment Programme on Women's
Unwaged Work and How We Can Resist It [c.mid-1980s]
13. Housewives and Other Carers in the Guyanese Resistance of the Late
1970s and Early 1980s: Looking Back [2010] 134
14. Four Letters in Defense of Workers, Unwaged and Waged, and their
Families [2011, 2012, 2018]
PART THREE - THE POLITICAL IN THE PERSONAL
Section I - My Breast and Yours, and the Inequalities of Power
15. The War on Cancer as Seen by an Embattled Survivor [2017/2018]
16. Sister Survivor: For Audre Lorde [1992]
Section II - Women and Depression: Auto/biographies
17. Asylum: Diary of the Last Seven Days in a Women's Psychiatric Ward
[c.1973]
18. M: A Daughter's Tale [c.1982]
Section III - Undomesticating Violence
19. Against the Beating of Children: Submission to a Parliamentary
Sub-committee on the Corporal Punishment of Children [2013]
20. Three Letters against Sexual Violence against Children [2010]
21. Knife Edge: Living with Domestic and Economic Violence [2013]
22. Women as Collateral Damage in Race Violence [2002]
23. Sexual Violence is a Question of Whose Honor? [2000]
24. Sexual Abuse and the Uses of Power [2018]
25. Letter to the Police Complaints Authority on an Allegation of Rape
against a Police Commissioner [2012]
PART FOUR - TOWARDS STRENGTHENING THE MOVEMENT
26. Gender, Race, and Class: A Perspective on the Contemporary Caribbean
Struggle [2009]
Last Word
27. Walter Rodney's Last Writing on and for the Guyanese Working People
[2010]
Afterword: Andaiye and the Caribbean Radical Organizing Tradition - Anthony
Bogues
Index