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From the field to the legislature :

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a history of women in the Virgin Islands /

Eugenia O'Neal.

Westport, Conn. :

Greenwood Press,

©2001.

1 online resource (xiii, 150 pages)

Contributions in women's studies,

no. 187

0147-104X ;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-146) and index.

Ch. 1. Slavery -- Birth of a Colony -- Constructing Versions of Womanhood: Plantation Society, 1700-1834 -- Finding Freedom and Resisting Definition -- Women of Respect: Exerting Influence and Exercising Power -- Ch. 2. Amelioration -- Abolitionists and Patriarchy -- Shaping the New Woman -- Ch. 3. Post-Abolition Virgin Islands Society -- Emancipation and Its Immediate Aftermath -- Post-Abolition Government -- Missionaries in Post-Abolition Virgin Islands -- Ch. 4. New Challenges -- Women in Post-Abolition Society and Economy -- Education and Women -- Ch. 5. Constructing Self -- Twentieth-Century Government -- Women in the Society and in the Family -- Ch. 6. Public Lives -- Women and Welfare -- Women in the Economy -- Women in Education: Leading the Way -- Women in Health -- Ch. 7. The Boom Years, 1970-1995 -- Progress and Change -- Women in the Economy: Gaining Ground -- Women and the Family -- Women and Social Policy -- Ch. 8. Political Women -- Political Gains since 1970 -- Factors Affecting Women's Political Participation.

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From the field to the legislature.

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Women-- British Virgin Islands-- History.

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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Women's Studies.

Women.

British Virgin Islands.

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