“Engendering Islands is an original, compelling, and important exploration of how metro- politan ideas about gender influenced emerging notions of race in the little-studied seven- teenth-century French Caribbean. Ashley Williard’s fine scholarship and keen insights make this book valuable for scholars in a wide variety of fields.”—Micah True, author of Masters and Students: Jesuit Mission Ethnography in Seventeenth-Century New France

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