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Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica (Women in Culture and Society) (7th Edition) by Gina A. Ulysse Paperback, 333 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-226-84122-7 / 0226841227 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-84122-9 / 9780226841229 The Caribbean “market woman” is ingrained in the popular imagination as the archetype of black womanhood in countries throughout the region. Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, Downtown Ladies offers a more complex picture by documenting the history of independent |