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Interrogating Caribbean masculinities : theoretical and empirical analyses / edited by Rhoda E. Reddock.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2004.Description: xxxiv, 421 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9766401381
  • 9789766401382
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Interrogating Caribbean masculinities.DDC classification:
  • 305.3109729 I61, 2004
LOC classification:
  • BF692.5 .I67 2004
Other classification:
  • 71.32
  • LB 44640
  • MS 2850
Contents:
Theorizing Caribbean masculinities: Masculinities in transition : gender and the global problematique / Keith Nurse. Unmasking masculinity and deconstructing patriarchy : problems and possibilities within feminist epistemology / Patricia Mohammed. Power games and totalitarian masculinity in the Dominican Republic / E. Antonio de Moya -- Gender socialization, educational performance and peer group relations: Boys of the empire : elite education and the construction of hegemonic masculinity in Barbados, 1875-1920 / Aviston D. Downes. Male privileging and male "academic underperformance" in Jamaica / Mark Figueroa. Masculinities, myths and educational underachievement : Jamaica, Barbados and St Vincent and the Grenadines / Odette Parry. History, (re)memory, testimony and biomythography : charting a buller man's Trinidadian past / Wesley E.A. Crichlow -- Class, ethnicity, nation and notions of masculinity: Black masculinity in Caribbean slavery / Hilary Beckles. Caribbean masculinity at the fin de si ecle / Linden Lewis. Globalization, migration and the shaping of masculinity in Belize / Linda M. Matthei and David A. Smith -- Popular culture and literary images of masculinity and femininity: Under women's eyes : literary constructs of Afro-Caribbean masculinity / Paula Morgan. Calling all dragons : the crumbling of Caribbean masculinity / Kenneth Ramchand. I Lawa : the construction of masculinity in Trinidad and Tobago calypso / Gordon Rohlehr. Uniform and weapon / Christopher Cozier.
Action note:
  • Self-Renewing 2017
Summary: "This anthology of new Caribbean scholarship on masculinities establishes masculinity studies as an important new area of research and theorizing in the Caribbean. The content of this volume reflects a range of disciplinary approaches, including anthropology, history, international relations literary criticism, and art and installation." "The book is of interest for those teaching masculinity studies, women and gender studies, and for policy makers interested in gender relations in the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora."--BOOK JACKET.
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Papers presented at a conference held Jan. 1996 at the University of the West Indies (Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago).

Includes bibliographical references.

Theorizing Caribbean masculinities: Masculinities in transition : gender and the global problematique / Keith Nurse. Unmasking masculinity and deconstructing patriarchy : problems and possibilities within feminist epistemology / Patricia Mohammed. Power games and totalitarian masculinity in the Dominican Republic / E. Antonio de Moya -- Gender socialization, educational performance and peer group relations: Boys of the empire : elite education and the construction of hegemonic masculinity in Barbados, 1875-1920 / Aviston D. Downes. Male privileging and male "academic underperformance" in Jamaica / Mark Figueroa. Masculinities, myths and educational underachievement : Jamaica, Barbados and St Vincent and the Grenadines / Odette Parry. History, (re)memory, testimony and biomythography : charting a buller man's Trinidadian past / Wesley E.A. Crichlow -- Class, ethnicity, nation and notions of masculinity: Black masculinity in Caribbean slavery / Hilary Beckles. Caribbean masculinity at the fin de si ecle / Linden Lewis. Globalization, migration and the shaping of masculinity in Belize / Linda M. Matthei and David A. Smith -- Popular culture and literary images of masculinity and femininity: Under women's eyes : literary constructs of Afro-Caribbean masculinity / Paula Morgan. Calling all dragons : the crumbling of Caribbean masculinity / Kenneth Ramchand. I Lawa : the construction of masculinity in Trinidad and Tobago calypso / Gordon Rohlehr. Uniform and weapon / Christopher Cozier.

"This anthology of new Caribbean scholarship on masculinities establishes masculinity studies as an important new area of research and theorizing in the Caribbean. The content of this volume reflects a range of disciplinary approaches, including anthropology, history, international relations literary criticism, and art and installation." "The book is of interest for those teaching masculinity studies, women and gender studies, and for policy makers interested in gender relations in the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora."--BOOK JACKET.

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