Interrogating Caribbean Masculinities: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses

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Rhoda Reddock
University of the West Indies Press, 2004 - Social Science - 421 pages
Interrogating Caribbean Masculinities is an anthology of new Caribbean scholarship on masculinities. The content reflects a range of disciplinary approaches, including anthropology, history, international relations, literary criticism and art and installation. Special attention is paid to the interaction of power and sexuality in the construction of masculine identities. To understand how men express and exert power, it is necessary to include the analysis of power in the context of structural relationships: the class system, political and economic inequalities, racism, colonialism, homophobia, and other systems of oppression and exclusion. 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.

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Unmasking Masculinity and Deconstructing
38
Power Games and Totalitarian Masculinity in
68
Gender Socialization Educational Performance
103
Male Privileging and Male Academic
137
Masculinities Myths and Educational
167
Part 3
191
Class Ethnicity Nation and Notions of Masculinity
223
Caribbean Masculinity at the Fin de Siècle
244
Globalization Migration and the Shaping
267
Part 4
274
Popular Culture and Literary Images
287
The Crumbling of Caribbean
309
Trinidad and Tobago Calypso
326
Uniform and Weapon
404
Contributors
417
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