The culture of gender and sexuality in the Caribbean / edited by Linden Lewis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lewis, Linden, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--Caribbean Area.

Sex role.

Sex customs--Caribbean Area.

Sex customs.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

328 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2003]

Summary:

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 1

Theoretical Mediations on Gender in the Caribbean

1. Theorizing Ruptures in Gender Systems and the Project of Modernity in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean / Violet Eudine Barriteau 25

2. The Globalization of the Discourse on Gender and Its Impact on the Caribbean / Hilbourne Watson 53

3. Caribbean Masculinity: Unpacking the Narrative / Linden Lewis 94

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 / Patricia Mohammed 129

5. Popular Imageries of Gender and Sexuality: Poor and Working-Class Haitian Women's Discourses on the Use of Their Bodies / Carolle Charles 169

6. "The Infamous Crime against Nature": Constructions of Heterosexuality and Lesbian Subversions in Puerto Rico / Elizabeth Crespo-Kebler 190

Sexual Orientation and Male Socialization in the Caribbean

7. The Role of the Street in the Socialization of Caribbean Males / Barry Chevannes 215

8. Masculinity and Power in Puerto Rico / Rafael L. Ramirez 234

9. Queering Cuba: Male Homosexuality in the Short Fiction of Manuel Granados / Conrad James 251

Gender, Sexuality, and Historical Considerations

10. Struggling with a Structure: Gender, Agency, and Discourse / Glyne Griffith 275

11. "It Hurt Very Much at the Time": Patriarchy, Rape Culture, and the Slave Body-Semiotic / Joseph C. Dorsey 294.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813026776

OCLC:

52887092