{"product_id":"the-point-is-to-change-the-world-9780745341279","title":"The Point is to Change the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn inspiring collection from one of the Caribbean's most vital political figures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Andaiye was the most important Caribbean woman intellectual-activist of the generation of Walter Rodney. Her subtle, river-clear, loving and angry intelligence is rescued here, and with it the memory of the political struggles of the 1970s and 80s in which a critical feminism emerged from the ruins of the Black Power moment'\u003c\/p\u003e -- Richard Drayton, Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'It is not an exaggeration to say that this volume will occupy a vaunted place alongside the writings of C. L. R. James, Frantz Fanon, Aime Cesaire, Sylvia Wynter, Edouard Glissant, George Lamming, Kamau Brathwaite, Stuart Hall, and certainly Walter Rodney. And like her distinguished predecessors, Andaiye and her brilliant collaborator, Alissa Trotz, did not put this book together in order to gather dust in a library. The title says it all: The Point is to Change the World'\u003c\/p\u003e -- Robin D.G. Kelley, author of 'Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This collection is a benchmark for the study of the Caribbean radical imagination'\u003c\/p\u003e -- Clem Seecharan, Emeritus Professor of History at London Metropolitan University and author of 'Sweetening \"Bitter Sugar\": Jock Campbell, the Booker Reformer in British Guiana, 1934-66'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A comprehensive assessment of Andaiye's journey of personal, political and professional growth. Notwithstanding her privileged position, she was a resolute advocate for working-class women. Her legacy as a Caribbean activist and strategist is formidable'\u003c\/p\u003e -- Patricia Rodney, Chair of the Walter Rodney Foundation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFOREWORDS\u003cbr\u003e Andaiye’s Radical Imagination—with Special Reference to Hern Engagement with the Working People’s Alliance - Clem Seecharan\u003cbr\u003e Between Home and Street: Andaiye’s Revolutionary Vision - Robin D. G. Kelley\u003cbr\u003e The Principle of Justice as a Labor of Caring - Honor Ford-Smith\u003cbr\u003e Editor’s Note: On the Politics of Precision \u003cbr\u003e Preface and Acknowledgements \u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE - LEARNING LESSONS FROM PAST ORGANIZING\u003cbr\u003e Section I - The Good and Bad of Some Earlier Feminist and Left Organizing in the Region\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Angle You Look from Determines What You See: Towards a Critique of Feminist Politics and Organizing in the Caribbean [2002] \u003cbr\u003e 2. The Historic Centrality of Mr. Slime: George Lamming’s Pursuit of Class Betrayal in Novels and Speeches [2003] \u003cbr\u003e 3. The Grenada Revolution, the Caribbean Left, and the Regional Women’s Movement: Preliminary Notes on One Journey [2010] \u003cbr\u003e 4. Conversations about Organizing: Revised Excerpts from an Interview with Andaiye by David Scott [2004] \u003cbr\u003e Section II - Notes on the Guyana Indian\/African Race Divide, and on Organizing within and against it\u003cbr\u003e 5. 1964: The Rupture of Neighborliness and its Legacy for Indian\/African Relations [2008; 2018] (with D. Alissa Trotz) \u003cbr\u003e 6. Organizing within and against Race Divides: Lessons from Guyana’s African Society for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa, Indian Political Revolutionary Associates, and the Early Working People’s Alliance [2008, 2017\/2018] \u003cbr\u003e 7. Three Letters against Race Violence [2004, 2008] \u003cbr\u003e PART TWO - A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE: STARTING WITH THE UNWAGED CARING WORK OF MAINLY WOMEN WE REACH ALL SECTORS\u003cbr\u003e Section I - Why and How to Count Unwaged Work\u003cbr\u003e 8. Valuing Unwaged Work: A Preparatory Brief for CARICOM Ministers Responsible for Women’s Affairs Attending the 4th World Conference on Women [1994] \u003cbr\u003e 9. Grassroots Women Learning to Count their Unwaged Work: Summary Report on a 2001–2002 Trial [2009] \u003cbr\u003e 10. Looking at the Legalization of Abortion from the Perspective of Women as Unwaged Carers [1993]\u003cbr\u003e Section II - Breaking the Frontier between Home and Street, Unwaged and Waged\u003cbr\u003e 11. Strike for a Millennium which Values all Women’s Work and all Women’s Lives: A Call to Action [2000] \u003cbr\u003e 12. The Impact of the IMF Structural Adjustment Programme on Women’s Unwaged Work and How We Can Resist It [c.mid-1980s] \u003cbr\u003e 13. Housewives and Other Carers in the Guyanese Resistance of the Late 1970s and Early 1980s: Looking Back [2010] 134\u003cbr\u003e 14. Four Letters in Defense of Workers, Unwaged and Waged, and their Families [2011, 2012, 2018] \u003cbr\u003e PART THREE - THE POLITICAL IN THE PERSONAL\u003cbr\u003e Section I - My Breast and Yours, and the Inequalities of Power\u003cbr\u003e 15. The War on Cancer as Seen by an Embattled Survivor [2017\/2018]\u003cbr\u003e 16. Sister Survivor: For Audre Lorde [1992] \u003cbr\u003e Section II - Women and Depression: Auto\/biographies\u003cbr\u003e 17. Asylum: Diary of the Last Seven Days in a Women’s Psychiatric Ward [c.1973] \u003cbr\u003e 18. M: A Daughter’s Tale [c.1982] \u003cbr\u003e Section III - Undomesticating Violence\u003cbr\u003e 19. Against the Beating of Children: Submission to a Parliamentary Sub-committee on the Corporal Punishment of Children [2013] \u003cbr\u003e 20. Three Letters against Sexual Violence against Children [2010]\u003cbr\u003e 21. Knife Edge: Living with Domestic and Economic Violence [2013]\u003cbr\u003e 22. Women as Collateral Damage in Race Violence [2002] \u003cbr\u003e 23. Sexual Violence is a Question of Whose Honor? [2000] \u003cbr\u003e 24. Sexual Abuse and the Uses of Power [2018] \u003cbr\u003e 25. Letter to the Police Complaints Authority on an Allegation of Rape against a Police Commissioner [2012]\u003cbr\u003e PART FOUR - TOWARDS STRENGTHENING THE MOVEMENT\u003cbr\u003e 26. Gender, Race, and Class: A Perspective on the Contemporary Caribbean Struggle [2009]\u003cbr\u003e Last Word\u003cbr\u003e 27. Walter Rodney’s Last Writing on and for the Guyanese Working People [2010] \u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Andaiye and the Caribbean Radical Organizing Tradition - Anthony Bogues\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404322316631,"sku":"9780745341279","price":24.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745341279.jpg?v=1730486098","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-point-is-to-change-the-world-9780745341279","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}