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

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: The Material of Gender / Patricia Mohammed -- 1. Essentialism versus Constructivism: Time for a Rapprochement? / Saskia Wieringa -- 2. Reconceptualizing Voice: The Role of Matrifocality in Shaping Theories and Caribbean Voices / Michelle Rowley -- 3. The Double Paradox / Janet Momsen -- 4. Is the Caribbean Male an Endangered Species? / Keisha Lindsay -- 5. Gendered Methodologies and Feminist Awakenings / Odette Parry -- 6. Constructing Visibility: Indian Women in the Jamaican Segment of the Indian Diaspora / Verene A. Shepherd -- 7. Gender and the Historiography of the English-Speaking Caribbean / Bridget Brereton -- 8. Women and Development Studies: Moving from the Periphery / Elsa Leo-Rhynie -- 9. Gendered Realities: Fact or Fiction? The Realities in a Secondary Level Coeducational Classroom / Barbara Bailey -- 10. Gender Issues in Science Education / Peter Whiteley -- 11. Gender Stereotypes: Perceptions and Awareness of a Sample of Jamaican Adolescents / Elsa Leo-Rhynie and Carmen Pencle -- 12. Women Entrepreneurs and Economic Marginality: Rethinking Caribbean Women's Economic Relations / Eudine Barriteau -- 13. Gender, Ethnicity and Familial Ideology in Georgetown, Guyana: Household Structure and Female Labour Force Participation Reconsidered / Alissa Trotz -- 14. Middle-Aged and Older Women in Jamaica / Joan M. Rawlins -- 15. Rereading Our Classics: In the Castle of My Skin and The Lonely Londoners / David Williams -- 16. Androgyny and Miscegenation in The Crying Game: The Case for a Performative Model of Gender and Race / Richard L.W. Clarke -- 17. From Object to Subject: The Affirmation of Female Subjectivity in Quince Duncan's La Paz del Pueblo and Kimbo / Paulette A. Ramsay -- 18. Crossing Boundaries: Race, Gender, Identity in Short Narrative Fiction by Women Writers of the Dominican Republic / Anne Maria Bankay -- 19. Standing in the Place of Love: Sex, Love and Loss in Jamaica Kincaid's Writing / Denise de Caires Narain -- 20. Gender as a Dynamic Concept in the Media / Hilary Nicholson -- 21. The Presence of Women in Caribbean Media / Marjan de Bruin -- 22. Saga of a Flagwoman / Kim Nicholas Johnson -- 23. Woman of the Shadows / Kathy-Ann Waterman -- 24. Grandma's Estate / Sistren / Honor Ford-Smith -- 25. Diary Pages 1980-1990 / Petrine Archer-Straw -- 26. "We Kind of Family" / Merle Hodge -- 27. Gender and Adult Sexuality / Barry Chevannes -- 28. Crowing Hens Are Not Aberrant: Gender, Culture and Performance Conversation -- A Jamaican Perspective / Kathryn Shields-Brodber -- 29. Envisioning a Politics of Change within Caribbean Gender Relations / Linden Lewis.

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