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Gender Variances and Sexual Diversity in the Caribbean - Perspectives, Histories, Experiences (Paperback)
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Gender Variances and Sexual Diversity in the Caribbean - Perspectives, Histories, Experiences (Paperback)
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Gender Variances and Sexual Diversity in the Caribbean:
Perspectives, Histories, Experiences is a collection of critical
perspectives on fundamental questions of how sexual orientation and
gender in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean are conceived, studied,
discoursed and experienced. Bringing together and updating existing
and in-progress scholarly work on minority genders and sexualities
in the region, this collection seeks to provide a fresh set of
lenses through which to examine the issues affecting people in the
Caribbean who fall outside the traditional binary categories of
heterosexual males or heterosexual females.Opening with a variety
of perspectives - from the biological to the religious and
historiographical - the volume explores definitions of sex and
gender as well as constructions of sexuality among Commonwealth
Caribbean scholars, and the ways in which the Judaeo-Christian
tradition popular in the region has responded to these. Other
chapters examine the socializing forces that reinforce or challenge
conventional conceptions of gender and sexuality, and how these
result in the constraining forces of social exclusion and
discrimination that many members of the LGBTQ community in the
region experience. The book ends with chapters that interrogate the
normative standards of gender and sexuality that have traditionally
underlain Caribbean popular culture. Additionally, there is an
exploration of how anti-gay discourse in Jamaican dancehall,
embedded in a language linked to the country's vernacular
nationalism, has been neutralized by a coalition of local and
international LGBTQ activists.
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