TY  - GEN
AU  -  Fox, Desrey
TI  - Caught within the cracks: the case of the Amerindian women in Guyana
T2  - WAND Occasional paper
PB  - WAND
KW  - WOMEN
KW  - AMERINDIANS
KW  - DISCRIMINATION
KW  - WOMEN'S RIGHTS
KW  - LEGAL PROTECTION
KW  - GOVERNMENT POLICY
KW  - GUYANA
KW  - CARIBBEAN
N2  -   This paper, which is a draft, is a critical case study of how laws designed by the colonial state and maintained by sucessive states place Amerindians in a subordinate position within Guyanese society (and by extension within the wider caribbean).  The author's caution regarding the need for further research notwithstanding, her thesis on the manipulation of Amerindian 'difference' warrants full attention.  Particulary revealing are her observations about specialised (and legalised) discrimination against Ameriandian women's self determination in the conduct of their personal, business and civil affairs and of the function of such methods as a vehicle to achieve Amerindian assimilation
ER  -