Love and power : Caribbean discourses on gender / edited by V. Eudine Barriteau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barriteau, Eudine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--Caribbean Area.

Sex role.

Feminism--Caribbean Area.

Feminism.

Women--Caribbean Area--Social conditions.

Women.

Caribbean Area.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xii, 516 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2012.

Summary:

A significant focus of the Nita Barrow Unit of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies has been on the centring of power in Caribbean scholarship on gender. This collection explores the theme of power to expose the disruptions and dangers lurking in Caribbean discourses on gender and love when these are approached from interrogating the currencies of power continuously circulating in their operations.

Love and Power: Caribbean Discourses on Gender makes several major contributions. The chapters are vibrant and grounded in the complex realities of the contemporary Caribbean even as they challenge canonical thought. The authors simultaneously critique and create knowledge about the lives of women and men within the Caribbean and its diaspora. They employ a range of analytical frameworks to dissect history, international relations, philosophy, intimate partner violence, feminist thought and activism, mothering, masculinities, diasporic migration, international finance, entrepreneurship, erotica, and desire. The book ruptures the feminist silences around love, lust and living in Caribbean societies and discourses. It problematizes the intersections of love and power, love and the power of the erotic, and gender and the love of power. The volume offers a significant contribution to Caribbean thought by documenting the work of scholars who are creating a multidisciplinary language on relations of gender. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Destabilizing Discourses and Practices

1 Disruptions and Dangers: Destabilizing Caribbean Discourses on Gender, Love and Power / V. Eudine Barriteau Barriteau, V. Eudine 3

Part 2 Epistemic Excavations, Narrative Negotiations and Sexualized Power

2 Feminist Social Epistemologies and Caribbean Scholarship: Exploring a Potential Paradigm Shift / Roxanne Burton Burton, Roxanne 41

3 The Divine and the Demonic: Sylvia Wynter and Caribbean Feminist Thought Revisited / Tonya Haynes Haynes, Tonya 54

4 Coming Home to the Erotic Power of Love and Desire in Caribbean Heterosexual Unions / V. Eudine Barriteau Barriteau, V. Eudine 72

5 What Does It "Really" Mean to Be a Wo/Man? Narratives of Gender by Women and Men / Halimah A.F. DeShong DeShong, Halimah A.F. 106

Part 3 Gendering Caribbean Civilization, Security and Trade

6 Regional Integration and Caribbean Civilization: Continuing the Debate / Jessica Byron Byron, Jessica 151

7 Engendering Security: HIV/AIDS and Human (In)Security in the Caribbean / Wendy C. Grenade Grenade, Wendy C. 183

8 "These Issues Are Gender Neutral": Caribbean Gender-Free Trade Relations / Kristina Hinds Harrison Harrison, Kristina Hinds 207

Part 4 Into the Margins: Filtering Economic Analysis Through a Gendered Lens

9 Finance Rhetoric and Gender Tropes into the Twenty-first Century / Don D. Marshall Marshall, Don D. 237

10 Economics, Entrepreneurship and Gender: Integrating "the Others" into Enterprise Development Strategies / Jonathan Lashley Lashley, Jonathan 258

11 Fostering Freedom: A Feminist Analysis of Micro-Enterprise Development for Women in the Caribbean / April Bernard Bernard, April 286

Part 5 Feminist Travels Through Diasporic Communities, Diverse Sexualities and Politicized Pedagogies

12 Who Is Your Mama? Transnational Motherhood and African-Caribbean Women in the Diaspora / Charmaine Crawford Crawford, Charmaine 323

13 Activism in Academia: Twenty-first-Century Caribbean Feminist Dilemmas / Gabrielle J. Hosein Hosein, Gabrielle J. 354

14 Passionate Realities: Students' Perceptions of Sexuality at the University of the West Indies, Mona / Annecka Marshall Marshall, Annecka 381

Part 6 Looking Back to the Future of Gender

15 Locating Gender in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Caribbean / Tara Inniss Inniss, Tara 403

16 Contemporary Gender Relations among Afro-Costa Ricans / Carmen Hutchinson Miller Miller, Carmen Hutchinson 418

Part 7 The Gaze: Men, Masculinity and Loving

17 Constructing Brotherhood: Fraternal Organizations and Masculinities in Barbados since 1740 / Aviston Downes Downes, Aviston 453

18 The Harder They Fall: Masculinity and the Cinematic Gaze / Patricia Mohammed Mohammed, Patricia 488.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9766402655

9789766402655

OCLC:

811410940