Commonwealth praise for book on Kamla's speeches
A valuable addition to research on gender and women in politics in the Commonwealth. That's how Dr Mark Collins, director of the Commonwealth Foundation, described the new book by Dr Kris Rampersad–Through The Political Glass Ceiling–the Race to Prime Ministership by Trinidad & Tobago's first female, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Selected Speeches. Speaking at the Commonwealth launch of the book at the Partners' Forum of the Ninth Women's Affairs Ministers meeting (9WAMM) in Barbados on Friday, Collins noted the need for research and documentation identified by various speakers and workshops at the meeting.
He said the book and the project for promoting social research and publishing which it launches were answers to that need. He also pointed out that it was not common for a chair of the Commonwealth to change mid-term, as happened in this case, with the change of Government in T&T which makes Persad-Bissessar the first female Caribbean chair-in-office of the Commonwealth. The launch was attended by representatives from across the Commonwealth. A copy of Through the Political Glass Ceiling was presented to chairperson of the foundation, Simone de Comarmond who endorsed Collins appreciation of the book as a needed documentation on gender development.
The launch was in keeping with the forum's theme, Gender Issues in the Economic Crisis Recovery and Beyond: Women as Agents of Transformation. All proceeds of the launch go towards supporting Caribbean research and publishing. Compiled, with introduction, contexts and analyses by Rampersad, the book features selected speeches of Persad-Bissessar against the backdrop of the roles of gender and geo-politics among other factors in the contest for leadership between Persad-Bissessar and the country's longest standing political entity, the People's National Movement. Rampersad is a journalist, researcher and writer who has been exploring the diversity of Caribbean society and cultures for some 20 years. Through the Political Glass Ceiling is available at all major bookstores.
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Wed Jun 09 2010
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