Love and Power—Caribbean Discourses on Gender

Barriteau (gender and public policy, U. of the West Indies, Barbados) brings together gender and public policy, sociology, political science, social and economic studies, and history and philosophy scholars from the Nina Barrow Unit of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the U. of the West Indies for 18 essays on issues of gender, love, sex, and power in Caribbean societies. They discuss the use of feminist social epistemologies to improve the process of Caribbean scholarship; the relationship between Caribbean feminist thought and the work of Sylvia Wynter; the erotic power of love and desire in Caribbean heterosexual unions; presentation of the self in narratives of gender by women and men; regional integration, power, and the concept of civilization from a feminist perspective; HIV/AIDS, the concept of security, and gender; gender-free trade relations; finance rhetoric, economics, entrepreneurship, and gender; a feminist analysis of micro-enterprise development for Caribbean women; transnational motherhood and African-Caribbean women in the diaspora; feminist activism in academia; students' perceptions of sexuality at the U. of West Indies, Mona; gender in the history of science, technology, and medicine in the Caribbean; gender relations among Afro-Costa Ricans; fraternal organizations and masculinities in Barbados since 1740; and masculinity, love, and the cinematic gaze. Distributed by Longleaf Services, Inc. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)