Gender-Based Violence in the Caribbean: Historical Roots, Contemporary Continuities - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9766580286 ISBN 13: 9789766580285

Verlag: University of the West Indies Press, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Gender-Based Violence in the Caribbean: Historical Roots, Contemporary Continuities is a landmark collection that addresses one of the region's most pressing crises. Edited by Dalea Bean and Verene A. Shepherd, the volume traces the historical roots of gender-based violence, showing how enslavement, colonial domination and systemic inequalities became embedded in cultural norms and everyday life. Contributors draw on court records, literature, music, oral histories and archival sources to uncover how violence - physical, psychological and symbolic - was normalized and perpetuated across generations. Spanning six sections, the book brings together pioneering feminist scholars and new voices to examine gender-based violence through intersecting frameworks of race, class, religion, sexuality and nationhood. The essays reveal both the persistence of violent structures and the spaces where resistance, agency and transformation take shape. While unsparing in confronting injustice, the collection also highlights resilience, activism and movements for change. This volume offers indispensable insights for scholars, policymakers, advocates and communities committed to ending gender-based violence in the Caribbean.

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Dalea Bean is Head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, Mona Campus Unit. She has researched extensively in the areas of women and gender in Caribbean history. Her first single-authored book: Jamaican Women and the World Wars: On the Front Lines of Change was published in 2017 by Palgrave MacMillan. She was also commissioned by the RJR Gleaner Communications Group to write Jamaican Women of Distinction: Holding up Half the Sky in 2020. 

Verene A. Shepherd is Professor Emerita of History and Gender Studies at the University of the West Indies. She researches Jamaican economic history, slavery, reparations and gender discourses in Caribbean history. She is the author of several books, including Livestock, Sugar & Slavery: Contested Terrain in Colonial Jamaica and I Want to Disturb My Neighbour: Lectures on Slavery, Emancipation and Post-Colonial Jamaica. 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of the West Indies Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9766580286
• ISBN 13: 9789766580285
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 602
• Herausgeber: Bean Dalea, Shepherd Verene A.
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