by Peggy Antrobus (Author)
The spread and consolidation of the women's movement in North and South over the past thirty years looks set to shape the course of social progress over the next generation. Peggy Antrobus draws on her long experience of feminist activism to set women's movements in their changing national and global context.
Author Biography
Peggy Antrobus has been employed in government and NGO programmes in St.Vincent, Jamaica and Barbados. She set up the Women and Development Unit within the School of Continuing Studies at the University of the West Indies (UWI) and was its head until her retirement in 1995. She was a founding member of the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action and DAWN, the network of Third World women promoting Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era.
Peggy Antrobus has been employed in government and NGO programmes in St.Vincent, Jamaica and Barbados. She set up the Women and Development Unit within the School of Continuing Studies at the University of the West Indies (UWI) and was its head until her retirement in 1995. She was a founding member of the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action and DAWN, the network of Third World women promoting Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era.