I am a cultural anthropologist working at the intersections of biography and feminist ethnography to explore one woman's life as a lens on gender, sexuality, and economic development in the making of the Caribbean as a region and the charting of global capitalism more generally. My previous books have focused on the ways economy and culture, labor and longings are inextricably connected in contemporary life. I have conducted ethnographic research in the Caribbean for over 30 years and have published ethnographies on the gendered globalization of work under 20th and 21st century capitalism (High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy; Entrepreneurial Selves; The Global Middle Classes). My current biographical work examines the life of a prominent feminist activist and political-economist from the region, whose hidden intimacies and emotional life boldly contravened the region's expectations for respectability and subtly informed her theorizations of gender, power, and politics.