"A major contribution to the scholarship of gender and sexuality in
the Caribbean."--A. Lynn Bolles, University of Maryland This volume
provides an engaging interdisciplinary approach to the study of
gender and sexual relations in the Caribbean. Essays from
sociological, literary, historical, and political science
approaches cover the Hispanic-, French-, and English-speaking
Caribbean areas and address topics such as sexuality,
homosexuality, culture, the body, the status of women, and the
wider social relations that inform these subjects. Contents
Exploring the Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, and Culture in
the Caribbean: An Introduction Part 1. Theoretical Mediations on
Gender in the Caribbean 1. Theorizing Ruptures in Gender Systems
and the Project of Modernity in the Twentieth Century Caribbean, by
Violet Eudine Barriteau 2. The Globalization of the Discourse on
Gender and Its Impact on the Caribbean, by Hilbourne Watson 3.
Caribbean Masculinity: Unpacking the Narrative, by Linden Lewis
Part 2. The Political Terrain of Gender and Sexuality 4. A
Blueprint for Gender in Creole Trinidad: Exploring Gender Mythology
through Calypsos of the 1920s and 1930s, by Patricia Mohammed 5.
Popular Imageries of Gender and Sexuality: Poor and Working-Class
Haitian Women's Discourses on the Use of Their Bodies, by Carolle
Charles 6. "The Infamous Crime against Nature": Constructions of
Heterosexuality and Lesbian Subversions in Puerto Rico, by
Elizabeth Crespo-Kebler Part 3. Sexual Orientation and Male
Socialization in the Caribbean 7. The Role of the Street in the
Socialization of Caribbean Males, by Barry Chevannes 8. Masculinity
and Power in Puerto Rico, by Rafael Ramirez 9. Queering Cuba: Male
Homosexuality in the Short Fiction of Manuel Granados, by Conrad
James Part 4. Gender, Sexuality, and Historical Considerations 10.
Struggling with a Structure: Gender, Agency, and Discourse, by
Glyne Griffith 11. "It Hurt Very Much at the Time": Patriarchy,
Rape Culture, and the Slave Body-Semiotic, by Joseph C. Dorsey
Linden Lewis is associate professor of sociology and anthropology
at Bucknell University and the author of numerous articles on the
Caribbean.
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