Interrogating Caribbean masculinities
Subtitle: theoretical and empirical analyses
By: edited by Rhoda E. Reddock
Contributors: Reddock, Rhoda
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Kingston, Jamaica
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
Subjects: Masculinity -- Caribbean Area -- Congresses; Men -- Caribbean Area -- Identity -- Congresses; Sex role -- Caribbean Area -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Papers presented at a conference held Jan. 1996 at the University of the West Indies (Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago)

Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: Class, ethnicity, nation and notions of masculinity: Black masculinity in Caribbean slavery / Hilary Beckles. Caribbean masculinity at the fin de siècle / Linden Lewis. Globalization, migration and the shaping of masculinity in Belize / Linda M. Matthei and David A. Smith; title: 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