Rose Mary Allen is Extraordinary Professor in the field of Culture, Community and History at the University of Curaçao Dr. Moises da Costa Gomez and a pioneer of oral history research. Her recent publications include a co-edited volume on the history and legacies of Dutch colonial slavery history, Staat en slavernij: het Nederlandse koloniale slavernijverleden en zijn doorwerkingen (State and slavery: Dutch colonial slavery history and its repercussions) (Athenaeum Publishers, 2023). Sruti Bala is associate professor in theater and performance studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her publications include 'The Gestures of Participatory Art' (2018) and the co-edited volume, The Global Trajectories of Queerness: Re-thinking Same-Sex Politics in the Global South, (Brill/Rodopi, 2015).

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsEditors’ Introduction to the Handbook of Gender Studies in the Dutch CaribbeanRose Mary Allen and Sruti BalaSECTION 11 Curaçaoan Women in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth CenturiesNolda Römer-Kenepa2 The Repercussions of Rumor: an Adultery Case from Eighteenth-Century CuraçaoJessica V. Roitman3 Gender Dialectics in Colonial Saba, 1780–1863Ryan Espersen4 New York, Cuba and the Birth of a Subversive Dutch Caribbean Writer An Introduction to P. P. Medardo De Marchena’s “Women and Modern-Day Life” (1934)Margo Groenewoud5 Women and Modern-Day Life: An Intimate Study of Women as our Life Companions with Some Advice (1934)Pedro Pablo Medardo de Marchena6 We have the Right to Break with that Custom Speech on the Occasion of the Seventh Anniversary of the Organization of the Wednesday Women (1955)Imelda van West-Davelaar7 Aruban Women’s Protests against Campo Alegre (1950–1957)Lucia Kelly8 The Women’s Movement in Bonaire: An IntroductionRose Mary Allen, Judith Brekelmans & Liliane de Geus9 Afro-Caribbean Kinship Networks and the Emancipation of WomenGladys J. do Rego-Kuster10 Hidden Strengths: Intellect and Ideology behind the Women’s Movement in Curaçao and Aruba, 1946–1995Margo Groenewoud11 Gender Policy and Institutionalization in Curaçao: Governmental and Civil Society Interactions since the 1930sJacqueline Martis12 The Dutch Caribbean Women’s Movement and the Efforts of the Women’s Development Center (SEDA) toward Societal TransformationStella Pieters Kwiers13 In Search of our Memory: Gender in the Netherlands AntillesSonia M. CualesSECTION14 Former Slave Owner’s House [Lanthùis]Crisèn Schorea15 Indigenous Identity, Gender and Colonialism in BonaireOliver Antczak16 Respectability and Resistance: Race, Gender and the Microdimensions of Power in the ColonyAngela Roe17 The Ivory Tower of Women’s StudiesTroetje Loewenthal18 Graduate Research Report on the Position of Curaçaoan Women Working at Texas Instruments from 1968 to 1976Sonia M. Cuales19 From the Womb: Reflections on Single Motherhood in CuraçaoJeanne Henriquez20 Cracks in the Glass Ceiling: Opportunities, Barriers and Strategies for Women in the Labor Market in Curaçao and ArubaPaula Kibbelaar21 Nine Houses, Nine Families: Oral History in the Rancho NeighborhoodYolanda Richardson22 “Sintimentunan Derá, Sla Ekspresá”: How Curaçaoans in the Netherlands Perceive Partner ViolenceKristen Martina23 Venezuelan Sex Workers in Curaçao: Rethinking Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling in Curaçao’s Refugee CrisisBeatriz César Loureiro24 Women and PowerMaria Liberia-Peters25 Gender Equality and Justice in Aruba: Policies and PracticesEvelyn Wever-CroesSECTION 326 Contesting Respectability and Sexual Politics in Post-Emancipation CuraçaoRose Mary Allen27 A Paragraph in the Unwritten History of Lesbian Love in the Caribbean: Amor Di KambradaAart G. Broek28 No Rhythm (You)Lysanne Charles29 Women Who Love Women in Curaçao: From “Cachapera” to Open Throats: A Commentary in CollageJoceline Clemencia30 Forma Di Papia (Ways of Speaking) in the Dutch Caribbean and their Relevance for the Study of Gender and SexualityLouis Philippe M. Römer31 I have to Come Out [Mi Tin Ku Sali]Gilbert Bacilio32 You Think Too Much like a Dutch Woman [Bo Ta Pensa Muchu Manera Makamba]Frida Domacassé33 Intimacy and Integration: The Ambivalent Achievement of Marriage Equality in the Dutch Caribbean, 2007–2012Chelsea Schields34 Sissies and Pancake Makers in Curaçao: Homosexuality as Shock TherapyVincent Sleebe35 A Queer Cultural Perspective from CuraçaoMario Kleinmoedig36 Studies on Trans* and Same-Sex Loving People in Curaçao: A Review EssayWigbertson Julian Isenia37 My Truth [Mi Bèrdat]Crisèn SchoreaSECTION 438 Women’s Literary Production in the Dutch CaribbeanElisabeth Echteld & Wim Rutgers39 The Semiotics of Dark Clouds in Songs and Poems of Elia Isenia: Art as Female TherapyJoceline Clemencia40 Tambú and the Arawak Princess Diyani: The Performance of History, Myth and RitualNanette de Jong41 Sex, Spirit and the Artist in the Films of Felix de RooyJean Antoine-Dunne42 St. Maarten is Like My LoverLysanne Charles43 Muhé Di Rancho, Be(com)ing with Calco: A Caribbean Feminist Practice for Decolonial Life WritingNadia Dresscher-Lambertus44 Saba Lace: History, Culture and ArtEric A. Eliason45 Making Up the Rules on My OwnLinda Richardson46 Fridi Martina: A Brief BiographyPhilie van Veen47 Baptism of FireFridi Martina48 Mother Rock [Baranka Mama]Fridi Martina49 Chakutoe: A Play about the Port Strike of 1922 in CuraçaoGilbert Bacilio50 Woman [Muhé]Imelda Valerianus-Fermina