The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean

“A major contribution to the scholarship of gender and sexuality in the Caribbean.”—A. Lynn Bolles, University of Maryland

<P>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.

<P>Contents<P>

Exploring the Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, and Culture in the Caribbean: An Introduction<br />

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<br />

2. The Globalization of the Discourse on Gender and Its Impact on the Caribbean, by Hilbourne Watson<br />

3. Caribbean Masculinity: Unpacking the Narrative, by Linden Lewis<br />

Part 2. The Political Terrain of Gender and Sexuality<br />

4. A Blueprint for Gender in Creole Trinidad: Exploring Gender Mythology through Calypsos of the 1920s and 1930s, by Patricia Mohammed<br />

5. Popular Imageries of Gender and Sexuality: Poor and Working-Class Haitian Women’s Discourses on the Use of Their Bodies, by Carolle Charles<br />

6. "The Infamous Crime against Nature": Constructions of Heterosexuality and Lesbian Subversions in Puerto Rico, by Elizabeth Crespo-Kebler<br />

Part 3. Sexual Orientation and Male Socialization in the Caribbean<br />

7. The Role of the Street in the Socialization of Caribbean Males, by Barry Chevannes<br />

8. Masculinity and Power in Puerto Rico, by Rafael Ramírez<br />

9. Queering Cuba: Male Homosexuality in the Short Fiction of Manuel Granados, by Conrad James<br />

Part 4. Gender, Sexuality, and Historical Considerations<br />

10. Struggling with a Structure: Gender, Agency, and Discourse, by Glyne Griffith<br />

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

Linden Lewis is associate professor of sociology and anthropology at Bucknell University and the author of numerous articles on the Caribbean.