Gender-Based Violence in the Caribbean Historical Roots, Contemporary Continuities

Dalea Bean is Head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, Mona Campus Unit. She has researched extensively in the areas of women and gender in Caribbean history. Her first single-authored book: Jamaican Women and the World Wars: On the Front Lines of Change was published in 2017 by Palgrave MacMillan. She was also commissioned by the RJR Gleaner Communications Group to write Jamaican Women of Distinction: Holding up Half the Sky in 2020. 

Verene A. Shepherd is Professor Emerita of History and Gender Studies at the University of the West Indies. She researches Jamaican economic history, slavery, reparations and gender discourses in Caribbean history. She is the author of several books, including Livestock, Sugar & Slavery: Contested Terrain in Colonial Jamaica and I Want to Disturb My Neighbour: Lectures on Slavery, Emancipation and Post-Colonial Jamaica.