The status guided Victorian gender ideology, based on the patriarchal rights of males, was a well established concept in nineteenth century Caribbean societies. It survived as an entrenched Eurocentric paternalism that was ...

Who coined the phrase ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’? Was it the ancient Greeks, the British poet John Lyly, William Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin—or in fact a long-forgotten British writer by the name of ...

The introduction of wheel thrown pottery in Barbados is seen as an exception within the femaledominated pottery tradition of the region. This paper will examine recent documentary evidence of a plantation in Barbados that ...

Nearly 75 years after the first woman neurosurgeon was trained in Latin America, the field of neurosurgery is changing and the prominence of women neurosurgeons within the specialty is increasing. By researching the ...

Porto Velho is a city with a little more than one hundred years, which was born from a reality shaped by American builders from the conglomerate surrounding the construction of the Madeira-Mamore Railway (1907-1912). In ...

This paper aims to discuss the formation process of the Tucano settlement, located in the municipality of Euclides da Cunha Paulista, in the west of Sao Paulo State, a region known as Pontal do Paranapanema, where there ...

Pregnant women are normally screened for Gestational diabetes (GDM) at week 24 of pregnancy. However sonic women develop the disease later on their pregnancies. No study has analyzed women developing GDM later in pregnancy ...