Gendered Realities: Essays in Caribbean Feminist Thought

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Patricia Mohammed
University of the West Indies Press, 2002 - 537 pages

Gendered Realities is an interdisciplinary reader that situates the present understanding of Caribbean feminist scholarship after fifteen years of in-depth and increasingly sophisticated research. The book provides a space for scholars to put forward new and challenging ideas and attempts to encourage new contributions to intellectual thought in the Caribbean.

The essays deal with diverse and rich topics including the role of women in Caribbean art and the visual grammars of gender in early Caribbean painting as well as the development of "women's history" and "gendered history" in relation to historiography of the English-speaking Caribbean. Other essays probe the representation of masculinity in Caribbean feminist thought, gender and adult sexuality, and symbols of masculinity in visual art.

Of interest to scholars in gender studies, women's studies, minority studies, and Caribbean history and culture.

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Contents

The Role of Matrifocality
22
The Double Paradox
44
Is the Caribbean Male an Endangered Species?
56
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About the author (2002)

Patricia Mohammed is Head of the Mona Unit of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies, the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.

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