Eudine Barriteau

Violet Eudine Barriteau, FB, GCM (10 December 1954), is a professor of gender and public policy, as well as Principal of the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill. She was also the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2009 to 2010, and she is on the advisory editorial boards of Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, published by SUNY Press, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, published by University of Chicago Press.

Her research interests encompass feminist theorizing, gender and public policy, investigations of the Caribbean political economy, and theorizing heterosexual women's socio-sexual unions.

Barriteau was appointed a Member of the Order of Freedom of Barbados (FB) in the 2019 Independence Day Honours List, "for her outstanding contribution to tertiary education and pioneering leadership in the development of gender studies and the promotion of gender equality."

In 2024, Barriteau was elected in a vote at the United Nations (UN) in New York to serve on the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Early life Violet Eudine Barriteau was born 10 December 1954, in the Caribbean island of Grenada and migrated to Barbados in 1966. She attended Ellerslie Secondary School.

Career 1972–1978 Teacher, St. George Secondary School.

Honours 2004 Best Selling Textbook award, University of the West Indies Press, for her book Confronting power, theorizing gender interdisciplinary perspectives in the Caribbean. 2011 Tenth CARICOM Triennial Award for Women, for her outstanding contribution to gender and development and the socio-economic development of the Caribbean Community. Awarded at the opening ceremony of the Thirty-Second Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. 2013 Gold Crown Merit, for her contribution to gender and development.

Selected bibliography

Books

See also Nita Barrow.

Journal articles

Personal life Barriteau has a son, Cabral.