Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica - Women in Culture and Society - Gina A. Ulysse - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226841212 - 2007
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Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica - Women in Culture and Society


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The Caribbean "market woman" is ingrained in the popular imagination as the archetype of black womanhood. Challenging this stereotype, this work offers a complex picture by documenting the history of independent international traders who travel abroad to import and export an array of consumer goods sold in the public markets of Kingston, Jamaica.


304 pages, 3 maps

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released 2007
ISBN13 9780226841212
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 304
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   539 g
Language English  

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