| Description |
1 online resource (328 pages) |
| Contents |
Theorizing ruptures in gender systems and the project of modernity in the twentieth-century Caribbean / Violet Eudine Barriteau -- The globalization of the discourse on gender and its impact on the Caribbean / Hilbourne Watson -- Caribbean masculinity: unpacking the narrative / Linden Lewis -- A blueprint for gender in Creole Trinidad: exploring gender mythology through Calypsos of the 1920s and 1930s / Patricia Mohammed -- Popular imageries of gender and sexuality: poor and working-class Haitian women's discourses on the use of their bodies / Carolle Charles -- "The infamous crime against nature": constructions of heterosexuality and lesbian subversions in Puerto Rico / Elizabeth Crespo-Kebler -- The role of the street in the socialization of Caribbean males / Barry Chevannes -- Masculinity and power in Puerto Rico / Rafael L. Ramírez -- Queering Cuba: male homosexuality in the short fiction of Manuel Granados / Conrad James -- Struggling with a structure: gender, agency, and discourse / Glyne Griffith -- "It hurt very much at the time": patriarchy, rape culture, and the slave body-semiotic / Joseph C. Dorsey |
| Summary |
"A major contribution to the scholarship of gender and sexuality in the Caribbean."--A. Lynn Bolles, University of MarylandThis volume provides an engaging interdisciplinary approach to the study of gender and sexual relations in the Caribbean |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sex role -- Caribbean Area
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Sex customs -- Caribbean Area
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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Sex customs
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Sex role
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Caribbean Area
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lewis, Linden, 1953-
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| LC no. |
2003061692 |
| ISBN |
0813031206 |
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9780813031200 |
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