Description
Interweaving Tapestries of Culture and Sexuality, Volume 2 looks at Caribbean sexuality from around the region and through different disciplines. These include sociology, gender, cultural studies, linguistics, and psychology with topics ranging from masculinity, sexuality, courtship and conflict in relationships, cultural expressions of sexuality, women s role in crime, and violence. The Caribbean has at times been difficult to define culturally and geographically. This book makes a bold attempt at including various language, cultural and geographic groups that include Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Haiti and Caribbean retentions from Ghana. It moves beyond the tapestry of Volume One by weaving in new scholarship thereby creating a more diverse view of the Caribbean and its origins. The contents are research-driven, original works that provide empirical data, theoretical perspectives, and accounts of lived experiences. It will be of interest to the reader exploring a wide range of perspectives on Caribbean sexuality.
Chapter 1. Early Caribbean Masculinities and Sexualities at the Crossroads: Historical, Sociological, Psychological, Theoretical and Literary Frames.- Chapter 2. Taking a Step Back: Reflecting on Identity, Sexuality, and Masculinity in Jamaica.- Chapter 3. Shame, Masculine Respectability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Ghana: Implications for the Caribbean.- Chapter 4. A Mental Health Perspective On Alternative Identities, Orientations And Relationships In Jamaica.- Chapter 5. Women, Crime and Violence in Jamaica: Challenging Gender Stereotypes.- Chapter 6. Jam, Ram & Fire: The Sexy Female Body in Caribbean Ethnic Discourse - The Marajhin Quartet.- Chapter 7. The Compas Direct and Gendered Order in Haiti.- Chapter 8. Intimate Partner Violence, Dancehall Music and Social Responsibility.- Chapter 9. Ole Taim Luv: Afro Caribbean Courtship Rituals in Jamaica.- Chapter 10. Couples in Conflict: A Discourse on Conflict Management Styles, Attachment, and Emotion Regulation among Jamaicans.
Karen Carpenter is a psychologist and Florida Board Certified clinical sexologist. She is a professor of Gender, Sexuality & Psychology at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, and a senior research associate in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Professor Carpenter is the editor of Interweaving Tapestries of Sexuality and Culture, Volume 1; author of Love and Sex: The Basics and Questioning Caribbean Jewish Identity; and co-author of Language, Race and the Global Jamaican. Her research interests include gender and human sexuality, psycholinguistics, and phenomenology.
