Women and Gender in Caribbean

Exploration of way in which gender discourses have been central to making of Caribbean history and to some most enduring experiments in European empire, capitalist development, and coercive labor. Emphasis on women who lived through slavery and indentured servitude and who continue to live under systems of globalization and neoliberal exploitation. How Caribbean women have historically empowered themselves and their communities, working in various ways to survive, radicalize, and transform their worlds. Ways in which ideas about gender and sexuality have shaped emergence of new nations and national cultures in Caribbean, and consideration of some dominant images of women in public space and popular culture. Exploration of complicated ways in which gender, race, class, sexuality, and national identity intersect in different Caribbean contexts.

P/NP or letter grading.