Gendered Realities
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Language
English
ISBN
9789766401122
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Material of Gender
PART I: NEW RUM IN OLD BARRELS: IDEAS IN FEMINIST THEORY AND METHODOLOGY
1 Essentialisrn versus Constructivism: Time for a Rapprochement?
2 Reconceptualizing Voice: The Role of Matrifocality in Shaping Theories and Caribbean Voices
3 The Double Paradox
4 Is the Caribbean Male an Endangered Species?
5 Gendered Methodologies and Feminist Awakenings
PART II: DECIPHERING THE SCRIPT: GENDER AND HISTORIOGRAPHY
6 Constructing Visibility: Indian Women in the Jamaican Segment of the Indian Diaspora
7 Gender and the Historiography of the English-Speaking Caribbean
PART III: UNLOCKING THE DOORS: GENDER IN THE ACADEMY
8 Women and Development Studies: Moving from the Periphery
9 Gendered Realities: Fact or Fiction?: The Realities in a Secondary Level Coeducational Classroom
10 Gender Issues in Science Education
11 Gender Stereotypes: Perceptions and Awareness of a Sample of Jamaican Adolescents
PART IV: HOUSEKEEPING MATTERS: WOMEN'S ROLES IN FAMILY, ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
12 Women Entrepreneurs and Economic Marginality: Rethinking Caribbean Women's Economic Relations
13 Gender, Ethnicity and Familial Ideology in Georgetown, Guyana: Household Structure and Female Labour Force Participation Reconsidered
14 Middle-Aged and Older Women in Jamaica
PART V: THE DOUBLE TAKE: GENDER AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION
15 Rereading Our Classics: In the Castle of My Skin and The Lonely Londoners
16 Androgyny and Miscegenation in The Crying Game: The Case for a Performative Model of Gender and Race
17 From Object to Subject: The Affirmation of Female Subjectivity in Quince Duncan's La Paz del Pueblo and Kimbo
18 Crossing Boundaries: Race, Gender, Identity in Short Narrative Fiction by Women Writers of the Dominican Republic
19 Standing in the Place of Love: Sex, Love and Loss in Jamaica Kincaid's Writing
PART VI: SPEAKING THEIR PIECE: WOMEN, GENDER AND THE MEDIA
20 Gender as a Dynamic Concept in the Media
21 The Presence of Women in Caribbean Media
22 Saga of a Flagwoman
23 Woman of the Shadows
PART VII: MADE IN THE CARIBBEAN: CONSTRUCTING GENDER
24 Grandma's Estate
25 Diary Pages 1980–1990
26 "We Kind of Family"
27 Gender and Adult Sexuality
28 Crowing Hens Are Not Aberrant: Gender, Culture and Performance Conversation – A Jamaican Perspective
29 Envisioning a Politics of Change within Caribbean Gender Relations
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