Gender negotiations among Indians in Trinidad, 1917-1947
By: Patricia Mohammed.
Contributors: Institute of Social Studies (Netherlands).
Publisher: Palgrave in association with Institute of Social Studies
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Women, East Indian -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Social conditions.; East Indians -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Social conditions.; Sex role -- Trinidad and Tobago -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliography and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of Tables and Figures xi; title: Glossary xiii; title: Acknowledgements xx; title: 1 Introduction 1; title: Introduction I; title: Indian Migration to Trinidad 4; title: The Idea of an Indian Community in Trinidad 6; title: The Centrality of Gender in Identity Formation 9; title: The Concept of Gender Negotiation 12; title: Crossing the Black Water:; title: 2 From India to Trinidad, 1845-19171; title: Introduction 17; title: Ideological Hegemonies of Gender in India 19; title: Contestation of Ideological Hegemonies in India 23; title: Anti-colonial and Anti-patriarchal Struggles in India 25; title: The Context of Migration from India 29; title: The 'Indian Woman Question' 37; title: The First Negotiations 40; title: Caste and gender pollution 40; title: Female reproduction and production 42; title: Freedom and constraints within estate life 44; title: Interracial liaisons and violent retaliations 44; title: Female responses 46; title: The Twice Outcaste Sex 47; title: Gender in the Definition of Indian Identity; title: in Trinidad 54; title: Introduction 54; title: The Colonial Order 55; title: Statutory Definitions of Difference within the Colonial Order 59; title: The Anti-colonial Discourse in Trinidad 62; title: The Indo-Trinidadian Nationalist Struggle 63; title: The Markers of Indian Ethnic Difference in Trinidad 69; title: Entrances and exits 69; title: Indian attitudes to the new society 73; title: Visual markers 75; title: Language and identity 77; title: Cultural Stereotypes 79; title: The Home versus the World: The Centrality of Gender 80; title: Preservation of the Race 83; title: 4 Gender Dynamics in the Making of Community 92; title: A Steady Labour Force 92; title: From Estate Labour to Land Acquisition: Relocating; title: Community 104; title: Family Strategies 115; title: Conclusion 125; title: Appendices; title: 4.1 Map of lots sold to villages of Lengua Village and; title: surrounding areas 127; title: 4.2 Map of sugar and cocoa estates in Trinidad in the; title: 19th and early 20th centuries 128; title: 4.3 Map of main towns and villages in the 19th and; title: early 20th centuries in Trinidad 129; title: 4.4 Report of the Wages Committee of 1920 131; title: The Reconfiguration of Masculinity and; title: Femininity: Negotiating with Myth and Symbols 134; title: Introduction 134; title: Continuities and Correspondence 137; title: Transmitters of Myth and Symbol 142; title: Ritual religious occasions 142; title: Orality and transmission of gender ideology 149; title: Transmission through literary sources: Newspapers,; title: lectures and debating societies 154; title: Heroes and heroines of the silver screen 159; title: Negotiating with Symbols of Patriarchy 165; title: Patriarchal Symbols 168; title: Conclusion 174; title: 6 Renegotiating Sexuality 175; title: Introduction 175; title: Colonial Attitudes to the Sexuality of Indians 177; title: Christian Missionary Attitudes to Indian Morality and 182; title: Sexuality; title: Colonial and Christian Morality 185; title: The Attitude to Indian Sexuality in Creole Trinidad 186; title: Negotiation of Sexuality among Indians 188; title: Violent confrontations 188; title: Village sanctions and control 190; title: Female Responses 194; title: Male Responses to a Subverted Patriarchy 202; title: Male Control of Female Sexuality 208; title: Conclusion 213; title: 7 Family, Marriage and Love 215; title: Introduction 215; title: Nata Ke Bhai to Pariwaar: The Recreation of Family and; title: Kinship Systems 217; title: Internal Affairs: Marriage Negotiations in the Indian; title: Community 226; title: The arrangement of marriages 227; title: Negotiating intimacy and gender relations in child 231; title: marriages; title: Breakdown in arranged marriages 233; title: Successful arrangements 234; title: Education and the deferral of arranged marriages 238; title: From Respect to Romantic Love 247; title: Compromises Between Parents and Children 258; title: Conclusion 260; title: 8 The Troubled Legacy of History and Love 262; title: Notes 270; title: Bibliography 299; title: Index 312.