By Eudine Barriteau (auth.)
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But Kant excludes women from the use of reason. He assumes we are too embedded in domestic life. In Enlightenment thought women represent the family and sexual life, not the cerebral qualities of public virtues Enlightenment thought poses for women. As Flax argues, ‘although women may be “hostile” towards civilization both our exclusion from parts of it and our labor within its necessary “outside” continue to be an ironic necessity’ (Flax 1990c: 7). The state and modernization strategies Post-independent, Caribbean states’ primary area of intervention for women is in material relations of gender, in the public arena of the economy, but in highly circumscribed ways.
16 Political Economy of Gender in 20th-Century Caribbean Gendered development planning The development goals which post-colonial/independent states pursue are influenced by pragmatic and conservative accommodation of successive waves of globalization in the international political economy and their permutations in the Caribbean. However, I am not interested in constructing a deterministic or reductionist argument: I theorize ‘post colonial’ very differently from conventional interpretations. Rather than focus exclusively on the complications and continuities of the colonial legacy I hold states and governments accountable for gendered features of civic and political life that continue and are sustained beyond the formal dismantling of the colonial relationship.
Unfortunately these are simplistic interpretations. They satisfy commentators who want to ride the crest of an apparent awareness of gender without wanting to trouble themselves to pursue the extensive scholarship on this aspect of feminist analysis (Flax 1987; Scott 1986; Chodorow 1995; Nicholson 1994; Barriteau 1992; Mohammed 1994). In another common interpretation gender is used in the grammatical sense of masculine gender, feminine gender and neuter gender. At least there is an historical explanation for this usage (Baron 1986 : 90).