The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean

Table of Contents......Page 8
Exploring the Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, and Culture in the Caribbean: An Introduction 1......Page 10
Theoretical Mediations on Gender in the Caribbean......Page 32
1. Theorizing Ruptures in Gender Systems and the Project of Modernity in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean 25......Page 34
2. The Globalization of the Discourse on Gender and Its Impact on the Caribbean 53......Page 62
3. Caribbean Masculinity: Unpacking the Narrative 94......Page 103
The Political Terrain of Gender and Sexuality......Page 136
4. A Blueprint for Gender in Creole Trinidad: Exploring Gender Mythology through Calypsos of the 1920s and 1930s 129......Page 138
5.Popular Imageries of Gender and Sexuality: Poor and Working-Class Haitian Women’s Discourses on the Use of Their Bodies 169......Page 178
6. “The Infamous Crime against Nature”: Constructions of Heterosexuality and Lesbian Subversions in Puerto Rico 190......Page 199
Sexual Orientation and Male Socialization in the Caribbean......Page 222
7. The Role of the Street in the Socialization of Caribbean Males 215......Page 224
8. Masculinity and Power in Puerto Rico 234......Page 243
9.Queering Cuba: Male Homosexuality in the Short Fiction of Manuel Granados 251......Page 260
Gender, Sexuality, and Historical Considerations......Page 282
10. Struggling with a Structure: Gender, Agency, and Discourse 275......Page 284
11. “It Hurt Very Much at the Time”: Patriarchy, Rape Culture, and the Slave Body-Semiotic 294......Page 303
List of Contributors 323......Page 332
Index 325......Page 334