The go-between role is crucial’: Peggy Antrobus’s Caribbean Feminist Regionalism and Internationalism

Peggy Antrobus (1935-) is a one of the Caribbean’s leading feminist thinkers and activists. Since the 1960s she has been involved in women’s rights and development in the Caribbean and wider Global South through various roles within Caribbean governments, the academy, local communities, and regional and international women’s organisations. Drawing on Antrobus’ writings, speeches, interviews, and oral histories, including one conducted by the author, this paper argues that Antrobus created a unique praxis as a ‘go-between’ working ‘within and between’ these often-conflicting spaces. In this way she forged Caribbean feminist regionalist and internationalist thought and activism that foregrounded the needs of working-class Caribbean women, critiqued neoliberal, macro-economic Caribbean policies, and championed an inclusive form of global sisterhood.