I don't think I am a Feminist: Eugenia Charles's Gender Politics in Postcolonial Dominica

 With conservative views and close alliances with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan as well as her own defiant personality, Charles gained the title of ‘Iron Lady of the Caribbean’. However, this moniker obscures more than it reveals, especially when it relates to Charles’s gender politics. This paper examines her speeches, interviews, and policies and stresses the paradoxes that lay at the centre of her views on gender, women and feminism.