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1 online resource (328 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Theorizing ruptures in gender systems and the project of modernity in the twentieth-century Caribbean / Violet Eudine Barriteau -- Globalization of the discourse on gender and its impact on the Caribbean / Hilbourne Watson -- Caribbean masculinity: unpacking the narrative / Linden Lewis -- A blueprint for gender in Creole Trinidad: exploring gender mythology through Calypsos of the 1920s and 1930s / Patricia Mohammed -- Popular imageries of gender and sexuality: poor and working-class Haitian women's discourses on the use of their bodies / Carolle Charles -- "The infamous crime against nature": constructions of heterosexuality and lesbian subversions in Puerto Rico / Elizabeth Crespo-Kebler -- Role of the street in the socialization of Caribbean males / Barry Chevannes -- Masculinity and power in Puerto Rico / Rafael L. Ramírez -- Queering Cuba: male homosexuality in the short fiction of Manuel Granados / Conrad James -- Struggling with a structure: gender, agency, and discourse / Glyne Griffith -- "It hurt very much at the time": patriarchy, rape culture, and the slave body-semiotic / Joseph C. Dorsey. |
| Summary |
"A major contribution to the scholarship of gender and sexuality in the Caribbean."--A. Lynn Bolles, University of MarylandThis volume provides an engaging interdisciplinary approach to the study of gender and sexual relations in the Caribbean. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sex role -- Caribbean Area.
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Sex role. |
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Caribbean Area. |
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Sex customs -- Caribbean Area.
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Sex customs. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Gender roles. |
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Sexual practices. |
| Added Author |
Lewis, Linden, 1953-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Culture of gender and sexuality in the Caribbean. Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©2003 0813026776 (DLC) 2003061692 (OCoLC)52887092 |
| ISBN |
0813031206 (electronic book) |
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9780813031200 (electronic book) |
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0813026776 (c ; acid-free paper) |
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