Confronting power, theorizing gender : interdisciplinary perspectives in the Caribbean / edited by Eudine Barriteau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barriteau, Eudine, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist psychology--Caribbean, English-speaking.

Feminist psychology.

Sex differences (Psychology)--Caribbean, English-speaking.

Sex differences (Psychology).

Sex role--Caribbean, English-speaking.

Sex role.

Power (Social sciences)--Caribbean, English-speaking.

Power (Social sciences).

Women in development--Caribbean, English-speaking.

Women in development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jamaica : University of the Wet Indies Press, 2003.

Summary:

This valuable contribution to the exploration of masculinity as a gender construct and its manifestation in the Caribbean provides a fundamental resource that pays special attention to the interaction of power and sexuality in the creation of masculine identities in the region. Vital reading for policy makers and teachers and students of gender studies.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Part I: Introduction

1 Confronting Power, Theorizing Gender in the Commonwealth Caribbean

Part II: Epistemological Inquiries, Feminist Restlessness

2 Theorizing the Shift from "Woman" to "Gender" in Caribbean Feminist Discourse: The Power Relations of Creating Knowledge

3 Women and Difference in Caribbean Gender Theory: Notes towards a Strategic Universalist Feminism

4 A Feminist's Oxymoron: Globally Gender-Conscious Development

Part III: Theorizing Historiography, Historicizing Gender and Sexuality

5 A Symbiotic Visiting Relationship: Caribbean Feminist Historiography and Caribbean Feminist Theory

6 "How Our Lives Would Be Affected by the Custom of Having Several Wives": The Intersection between African History and Gender Studies in the Caribbean

7 Perfect Property: Enslaved Black Women in the Caribbean

8 Theorizing Sexual Relations in the Caribbean: Prostitution and the Problem of the "Exotic

Part IV: Gender, Genre and Cultural/Literary Discourse

9 "What Have We to Celebrate?" Gender, Genre and Diaspora Identities in Two Popular Cultural Texts

10 Feminist Literary Theories and Literary Discourse in Two George Lamming Texts

Part V: Gender and Power in the Public Domain: Feminist Theorizing of Citizenship

11 Beyond the Bill of Rights: Sexing the Citizen

12 Theorizing the Gendered Analysis of Work in the Commonwealth Caribbean

13 Gender and Power in Contemporary Society: A Case-Study of Student Government

Part VI: Gender and Power in the Public Domain: Deconstructing Masculinity and Marginality

14 Gender and the Elementary Teaching Service in Barbados, 1880-1960: A Re-examination of the Feminization and Marginalization of the Black Male Theses

15 Requiem for the Male Marginalization Thesis in the Caribbean: Death of a Non-Theory.

References

Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 22, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4356-3215-X