The Point is to Change the World (eBook)

lt;p>Andaiye was a Guyanese social, political, and gender rights activist. She was an early member of the executive of the Working People's Alliance, a founding member of the women's development organisation Red Thread in Guyana in 1986 and an executive member of the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action.

Alissa Trotz is the Director of the Women & Gender Studies Institute, and Director of the undergraduate Caribbean Studies Program at New College at the University of Toronto.

Foreword by Clem Seecharan

Foreword by Robin DG Kelley

Foreword by Honor Ford-Smith

Introduction

Part I: Learning Lessons from Past Organizing

1. The Good and Bad of Some Earlier Feminist and Left Organizing in the Region

2. Notes on the Guyana Indian/African Race Divide and on Organizing Within and Against It

Part II: A Different Perspective: Starting with the Unwaged Caring Work of Mainly Women We Reach All Sectors

3. Why and How To Count Unwaged Work

4. Breaking the Frontier Between Home and Street, Unwaged and Waged

Part III: The Political in the Personal

5. My Breast and Yours, and the Inequalities of Power

6. Women and Depression: Auto/Biographies

7. Undomesticating Violence

Part IV: Towards Strengthening the Movement

8. Gender, Race and Class: A Perspective on the Contemporary Caribbean Struggle

Last Word: Walter Rodney's Last Writing on and for the Guyanese Working People