What question did this study set out to answer?

The aim is to define a distinct Caribbean feminism separate from Western models, emphasizing its unique attributes.

April 18, 2026

Caribbean Feminist Praxis: The Scholarly and Activist Work of Rhoda Reddock

Key Points

The aim is to define a distinct Caribbean feminism separate from Western models, emphasizing its unique attributes.
Analyzing the origins and development of Caribbean feminism since the 1980s
Examining Rhoda Reddock's role in activist and scholarly contexts
Exploring the intersections of race, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality in Caribbean feminism
Caribbean feminism is characterized by its anticolonial, regional, and diasporic nature.
Reddock's work demonstrates how race, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality influence women’s activism and scholarship.
The pathways she identifies link women's activism to broader historical and social movements in the Caribbean.

Abstract

Abstract The project to define a specific Caribbean feminism as different from the Western bourgeois European-American model was consistently a central concern for Caribbean feminists, from the 1980s inceptions that marked the start of CAFRA—the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Activism—of which Rhoda Reddock was founding president, and continuing into the present. Reddock has been at the forefront of defining that Caribbean feminism in both activist and intellectual contexts. Her work has revealed that Caribbean feminism has always been anticolonial, regional, and diasporic, with a clear sense of how race, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality combine. Her work provides a variety of pathways to situate women's activism and scholarship within larger histories, movements, and contexts of Caribbean struggles for full emancipation.

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