| Description |
1 online resource (538 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Ancestral Poem -- Introduction and Overview -- SECTION I -- The Political Economy of Labour Force Feminisation: Women's Work and Gender Relations -- 'Men Day Done': Are Women Really Ascendant in the Caribbean? -- Island-hopping Body Shopping in Barbados: Localising the Gendering of Transnational Workers -- Guardians of our Homes, Guards of yours? Economic Crisis, Gender Stereotyping and the Restructuring of the Private Security Industry in Georgetown, Guyana -- Working on Equality: Commonwealth Caribbean Women Trade Union Leaders |
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Explaining the Caribbean Family: Gender Ideologies and Gender Relations -- SECTION II -- Hegemony, Patriarchy and the Creation of a Caribbean People's Culture -- Centreing Woman: The Political Economy of Gender in West African and Caribbean Slavery -- Gender Ideology and Land -- Changing Perceptions of Gender in the Caribbean Region: The Case of the Jamaican Peasantry -- Women and Jamaican Pentecostalism -- SECTION III -- Acquiring Gender Identities: Socialisation and Schooling |
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For Richer or Poorer: How Western Psychology Does, Can and Should Contribute to a Caribbean Analysis of Gender Ideologies? -- Meditation on 'The Subject': Rethinking Caring Labour -- Feminisms and Educational Research and Understandings: The State of the Art in the Caribbean -- Education of the Colonial Woman through the Eyes of the Novelist -- Socialisation and the Development of Gender Identity: Theoretical Formulations and Caribbean Research -- SECTION IV -- Representations of Femininity and Masculinity: Embodiment, Sexuality and Family |
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Body Talk: Writing and Speaking the Body in the Texts of Caribbean Women Writers -- Caribbean Bodies: Representation and Practice -- 'Compulsory Heterosexuality' and Textual/Sexual Alternatives in Selected Texts by West Indian Women Writers -- 'Young t'ing is the name of the game': Sexual Dynamics in a Caribbean Romantic Fiction Series -- Caribbean Masculinity and Family: Revisiting 'Marginality' and 'Reputation' -- SECTION V -- Women's Power in a Man's World: Contestations of Gender, Raceand Culture -- Siren/Hyphen -- or, the Maid Beguiled |
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Sometimes You have to Drink Vinegar and Pretend You Think is Honey: Race, Gender and Man-Woman Talk -- Ram and Sita: The Reconstitution of Gender Identities among Indians in Trinidad through Mythology -- Contestations over National Culture in Trinidad and Tobago: Considerations of Ethnicity, Class and Gender -- Liberal Ideology and Contradictions in Caribbean Gender Systems -- Bibliography -- Contributors |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Gender identity -- Caribbean Area
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Women -- Caribbean Area -- Psychology
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Masculinity -- Caribbean Area
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Gender identity
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Masculinity
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Women -- Psychology
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Caribbean Area
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789766378400 |
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9766378401 |
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