The University of the West Indies

Dr. Dalea Bean

Dr Dalea Bean is a Lecturer and Graduate Coordinator at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, Regional Coordinating Office at the University of the West Indies. Before working with the IGDS, she taught in the Department of History at UWI in the areas of women's history and Caribbean history. She pursued a Bachelor of Arts at UWI in African and Caribbean History and Political Science and graduated with a first class honours in 2002. She then completed her PhD in History on the topic "Jamaican Women and World Wars I and II". She has been the recipient of awards for scholastic achievements, including Inaugural Robert Marley Scholarship and Walter Rodney Prize for African History. 

Her general research interests include women and gender justice in Caribbean history, women in conflict situations, and gender relations in the Caribbean hotel industry and Caribbean masculinities. She has written book chapters, journal articles and has presented numerous lectures internationally on these and other topics. She has also conducted gender equity and gender mainstreaming training regionally and has been engaged in research with the IGDS that facilitates gender mainstreaming in education, history writing, and masculinity studies. Her first single authored book: “Jamaican Women and the World Wars: On the Front Lines of Change” was published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2017.

Dr Bean serves on the Editorial Board of Identity Papers: A Journal of British and Irish Studies and is also the reviews editor for Jamaican Historic Review. She also sits on the Board of Directors of the Kiwanis Club of Young Professionals Jamaica, which allows her critical engagement in youth advocacy and service to children and vulnerable communities in Jamaica. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, singing, travelling and spending time with friends and family.

 

Research Interests: 

Academic interests

  • Women’s involvement in the World Wars
  • Gender and conflict Situations
  • Caribbean History
  • Caribbean Masculinities
  • Gender relations in the hotel and tourism industry 

Outreach interests

  • Youth empowerment and advocacy

  • Gender mainstreaming and training

 

Publications: 

Books

  • Jamaican Women and the World Wars: On the Front Lines of Change (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2017
  • Jamaican Women of Distinction: Holding up More than Half the Sky. Kingston: RJR Gleaner Communications Group. Ian Randle Publishers, 2020.
  • Jamaican Women and the World Wars: On the Front Lines of Change (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2017

 

Chapters in Books

  • “The Crucible of Contradiction: Jamaican's Loyalty to and Alienation from Empire during World War II” Global Perspectives on The Second World War, Routledge, 2023.
  •  “Looking Back to Move Forward: An Historical Overview of Gender Based Violence and Intimate Partner Violence in Jamaica.” Gender Dimensions of Violence Prevention. Edited By Dr. Ramona Biholar & Dr. Dacia Leslie, Routledge Press, 2022.
  • “Shifting Bodies and Missing Commodities: Louise Bennett’s commentary on the impact of World War II on Working Class Jamaicans.” 100 + Voices For Miss Lou. UWI Press, 2021.
  • “Bodies in Conflict: Policing Sexual Liaisons in Jamaica during World War II” World War II and the Caribbean. Debbie Eccles and Karen McCollin eds.
  • “’This is an Empire War!' Contextualizing issues of Britishness, Gender and Jamaican Loyalty during World Wars I and II.” Islands and Britishness: A Global Perspective. Jodie Matthews and Daniel Travers eds., pp 120-133. UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2012.
  • “Vectors of Venereal Diseases: The Perceived Threat of Prostitutes to Military Efficiency in Jamaica during World Wars I and II.” Breaking New Ground: New Perspectives on Caribbean History, Culture, Literature and Education. Daive Dunkley ed., pp 129- 156 New York: Lexington Publishers, 2011.
  • “For our King, For our Country, For Ourselves: Jamaican Women’s Narratives of Participation in World War II.” Engendering Caribbean History: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Verene Shepherd, ed., pp 766-777. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 2011.
  • “Born to Serve: The Political Life of Hon. Portia Simpson-Miller.” Women in Caribbean Politics. Cynthia Barrow-Giles ed., pp. 158-168. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 2011.

 

Journal Articles

  • Bean D with Goldthree, R (2018) “Writing New Histories of War and Women’s Activism in Jamaica: An Interview” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, 12: 345–362
  • “This war is going to teach us many lessons: Amy Bailey’s instructions to Jamaica during World War II” Caribbean Quarterly 63 (4) 2017
  • Spencer. A. and Bean, D. (2017). Female Sex Tourism in Jamaica: An Assessment of Perceptions. Journal of Destination Marketing & Management 6 (1), 13-21.
  • “Swimming against the tide: The tourist trade during World War I” Jamaican Historical Review, 27, 45-63, 2015
  • Bean, D. and Spencer, A., (2013) “Assessing Gender Depictions in Jamaican Hotels through the lens of Entertainment Coordinators: An Application of the Theory of Performativity to Creative Industries.” Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies 37 (3/4), 97-114.
  • Bean, D. “Teaching Men Feminism in the Caribbean: Experiences from an Online Programme.” Online Journal of Distance Education 1 (2), 15-20, 2012.
  • Spencer, A. and Bean, D., (2011) “Sex matters: Differences in Perceptions of Male and Female Line Level Employees about their Work in the Hospitality Industry in Jamaica.” Journal of Arts and Sciences 4(9), 413–426.
  • Bean, D. “A Dangerous Class of Woman?”: Prostitution in Jamaica During the World Wars. Jamaica Historical Review (XXIV), 2009, 42-50.

 

Forthcoming Articles

  • “More than an Airstrip: The Jamaican Tourism Industry during World War II”

  • N. Mortley and Bean D and “Privilege or Alienation?” Male experiences of feminist pedagogy and epistemology in the IGDS.

  • D Bean and Clarke, A. The Silence is deafening: An Preliminary assessment of Deaf Women’s experience of GBV in Jamaica.

  • “Enemy. Alien. Woman: A gendered analysis of the case of enemy aliens in Jamaica during World Wars I and II”

 

Short Monograph

  • Spencer, A. and Bean D., (2013) Between Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors: Female Employees in the Hotel Industry in Jamaica. Lambert Academic Publishing.

 

Editorials

  • Bean D. and Sukhu, R. (2016) “Signs of the Future of Feminist Praxis and Practise: IGDS Graduate Students and the Evolution of Caribbean Gender Theorising” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies- IGDS Gold: Advancing Caribbean Feminist Scholarship, ed Dalea Bean and Raquel Sukhu.

 

Book Reviews

  • Kit Candlin and Cassandra Pybus, Enterprising Women: Gender, Race and Women in the Revolutionary Atlantic. Caribbean Quarterly 61 (2&3) 2015, 150-153.

  • Erna Brodber, The World is a High Hill: Stories about Jamaican Women. Caribbean Quarterly 60 (1) 2014, 143-45.

  • Dennis Sandole, Peacebuliding: Preventing Violent Conflict in a Complex World. Progress in Development Studies 12 (1) 2013, 89-92.

  • Afua Cooper: The Hanging and Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal. Journal of Caribbean History, 44 (2) 2010, 255-258.

  • Anne S. MacPherson, From Colony to Nation: Women Activists and the Gendering of Politics in Belize, 1912-1982. Journal of Caribbean History, 43 (1) 2009, 149-151.

  • Mary Ann Clark, Where Men are Wives and Mothers Rule: Santeria Ritual Practices and their Gender Implications. Journal of Caribbean History 40 (2) 2006, 343.

 

Media Publications

  • Guest Columnist: “Still Trodding On The Wine Press - Jamaican Women Made Gains In 2016, But Much More Needs To Be Done” The Gleaner December 11, 2016.

  • Guest Columnist: “The Great War And A Small Island- Jamaica And World War I” The Gleaner August 3, 2014.

  • Guest Contributor: “Jamaica” How the World Remembers the War Today: BBC History Magazine, Centenary of World War I Issue, August 2014.

 

Other Print Material

  • Researcher and Compiler: Jamaican Women in Politics Calendar, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Jamaica and the Eastern Caribbean, 2009.