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Gendered realities : essays in Caribbean feminist thought / edited by Patricia Mohammed.

Contributor(s): Mohammed, Patricia
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Barbados : University of the West Indies Press ; Mona, Jamaica : Centre for Gender and Development Studies, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: xxiii, 537 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9766401128 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9789766401122 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Feminist theory -- Caribbean Area | Feminism -- Caribbean AreaDDC classification: 305.42/09729 LOC classification: HQ1190 | .G4757 2002Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Introduction: the material of gender / Patricia Mohammed -- Essentialism versus constructivism: time for a rapprochement? / Saskia Wieringa -- Reconceptualizing voice: the role of matrifocality in shaping theories and Caribbean voices / Michelle Rowley -- The double paradox / Janet Momsen -- Is the Caribbean male an endangered species? / Keisha Lindsay -- Gendered methodologies and feminist awakenings / Odette Parry -- Constructing visibility: Indian women in the Jamaican segment of the Indian diaspora / Verene A. Shepherd -- Gender and the historiography of the English-speaking Caribbean / Bridget Brereton -- Women and development studies: moving from the periphery / Elsa Leo-Rhynie -- Gendered realities: fact or fiction? the realities in a secondary level coeducational classroom / Barbara Bailey -- Gender issues in science education / Peter Whiteley -- Gender stereotypes: perceptions and awareness of a sample of Jamaican adolescents / Elsa Leo-Rhynie and Carmen Pencle -- Women entrepreneurs and economic marginality: rethinking Caribbean women's economic relations / Eudine Barriteau -- Gender, ethnicity and familial ideology in Georgetown, Guyana: household structure and female labour force participation reconsidered / Alissa Trotz -- Middle-aged and older women in Jamaica / Joan M. Rawlins -- Rereading our classics: in the castle of my skin and the lonely Londoners / David Williams --
Androgyny and miscegenation in The Crying Game: the case for performative model of gender and race / Richard L. W. Clarke -- From object to subject: the affirmation of female subjectivity in Quince Duncan's La Paz del Pueblo and Kimbo / Paulette A. Ramsay -- Crossing boundaries: race, gender, identity in short narrative fiction by women writers of the Dominican Republic / Anne Maria Bankay -- Standing in the place of love: sex, love and loss in Jamaica Kincaid's writing / Denise de Caires Narain -- Gender as a dynamic concept in the media / Hilary Nicholson -- The presence of women in Caribbean media / Marjan de Bruin -- Saga of a flagwoman / Kim Nicholas Johnson -- Woman of the shadows / Kathy-Ann Waterman -- Grandma's estate / Sistren with Honor Ford-Smith -- Diary pages 1980-1990 / Petrine Archer-Straw -- "We kind of family" / Merle Hodge -- Gender and adult sexuality / Barry Chevannes -- Crowing hens are not aberrant: gender, culture and performance conversation - a Jamaican perspective / Kathryn Shields-Brodber -- Envisioning a politics of change within Caribbean gender relations / Linden Lewis.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West HQ1190 .G4757 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903083851

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: the material of gender / Patricia Mohammed -- Essentialism versus constructivism: time for a rapprochement? / Saskia Wieringa -- Reconceptualizing voice: the role of matrifocality in shaping theories and Caribbean voices / Michelle Rowley -- The double paradox / Janet Momsen -- Is the Caribbean male an endangered species? / Keisha Lindsay -- Gendered methodologies and feminist awakenings / Odette Parry -- Constructing visibility: Indian women in the Jamaican segment of the Indian diaspora / Verene A. Shepherd -- Gender and the historiography of the English-speaking Caribbean / Bridget Brereton -- Women and development studies: moving from the periphery / Elsa Leo-Rhynie -- Gendered realities: fact or fiction? the realities in a secondary level coeducational classroom / Barbara Bailey -- Gender issues in science education / Peter Whiteley -- Gender stereotypes: perceptions and awareness of a sample of Jamaican adolescents / Elsa Leo-Rhynie and Carmen Pencle -- Women entrepreneurs and economic marginality: rethinking Caribbean women's economic relations / Eudine Barriteau -- Gender, ethnicity and familial ideology in Georgetown, Guyana: household structure and female labour force participation reconsidered / Alissa Trotz -- Middle-aged and older women in Jamaica / Joan M. Rawlins -- Rereading our classics: in the castle of my skin and the lonely Londoners / David Williams --

Androgyny and miscegenation in The Crying Game: the case for performative model of gender and race / Richard L. W. Clarke -- From object to subject: the affirmation of female subjectivity in Quince Duncan's La Paz del Pueblo and Kimbo / Paulette A. Ramsay -- Crossing boundaries: race, gender, identity in short narrative fiction by women writers of the Dominican Republic / Anne Maria Bankay -- Standing in the place of love: sex, love and loss in Jamaica Kincaid's writing / Denise de Caires Narain -- Gender as a dynamic concept in the media / Hilary Nicholson -- The presence of women in Caribbean media / Marjan de Bruin -- Saga of a flagwoman / Kim Nicholas Johnson -- Woman of the shadows / Kathy-Ann Waterman -- Grandma's estate / Sistren with Honor Ford-Smith -- Diary pages 1980-1990 / Petrine Archer-Straw -- "We kind of family" / Merle Hodge -- Gender and adult sexuality / Barry Chevannes -- Crowing hens are not aberrant: gender, culture and performance conversation - a Jamaican perspective / Kathryn Shields-Brodber -- Envisioning a politics of change within Caribbean gender relations / Linden Lewis.

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