Full Description
Edited by Rose Mary Allen and Sruti Bala, this comprehensive handbook of gender studies scholarship on the Dutch Caribbean islands thematically covers the history of movements for gender equality; the relation of gender to race, colonialism, sexuality; and the arts and popular culture. The handbook offers unparalleled insights into a century of debates around gender from the six islands of the Dutch Caribbean (Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, St. Maarten, St. Eustatius and Saba).
This handbook makes gender studies in the Dutch Caribbean accessible to an international readership. Besides key academic writings, it includes primary historical sources, translations from Papiamento and Dutch, as well as personal memoirs and poetry.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Editors' Introduction to the Handbook of Gender Studies in the Dutch Caribbean
Rose Mary Allen and Sruti Bala
SECTION 1
1 Curaçaoan Women in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Nolda Römer-Kenepa
2 The Repercussions of Rumor: an Adultery Case from Eighteenth-Century Curaçao
Jessica V. Roitman
3 Gender Dialectics in Colonial Saba, 1780-1863
Ryan Espersen
4 New York, Cuba and the Birth of a Subversive Dutch Caribbean Writer An Introduction to P. P. Medardo De Marchena's "Women and Modern-Day Life" (1934)
Margo Groenewoud
5 Women and Modern-Day Life: An Intimate Study of Women as our Life Companions with Some Advice (1934)
Pedro Pablo Medardo de Marchena
6 We have the Right to Break with that Custom Speech on the Occasion of the Seventh Anniversary of the Organization of the Wednesday Women (1955)
Imelda van West-Davelaar
7 Aruban Women's Protests against Campo Alegre (1950-1957)
Lucia Kelly
8 The Women's Movement in Bonaire: An Introduction
Rose Mary Allen, Judith Brekelmans & Liliane de Geus
9 Afro-Caribbean Kinship Networks and the Emancipation of Women
Gladys J. do Rego-Kuster
10 Hidden Strengths: Intellect and Ideology behind the Women's Movement in Curaçao and Aruba, 1946-1995
Margo Groenewoud
11 Gender Policy and Institutionalization in Curaçao: Governmental and Civil Society Interactions since the 1930s
Jacqueline Martis
12 The Dutch Caribbean Women's Movement and the Efforts of the Women's Development Center (SEDA) toward Societal Transformation
Stella Pieters Kwiers
13 In Search of our Memory: Gender in the Netherlands Antilles
Sonia M. Cuales
SECTION
14 Former Slave Owner's House [Lanthùis]
Crisèn Schorea
15 Indigenous Identity, Gender and Colonialism in Bonaire
Oliver Antczak
16 Respectability and Resistance: Race, Gender and the Microdimensions of Power in the Colony
Angela Roe
17 The Ivory Tower of Women's Studies
Troetje Loewenthal
18 Graduate Research Report on the Position of Curaçaoan Women Working at Texas Instruments from 1968 to 1976
Sonia M. Cuales
19 From the Womb: Reflections on Single Motherhood in Curaçao
Jeanne Henriquez
20 Cracks in the Glass Ceiling: Opportunities, Barriers and Strategies for Women in the Labor Market in Curaçao and Aruba
Paula Kibbelaar
21 Nine Houses, Nine Families: Oral History in the Rancho Neighborhood
Yolanda Richardson
22 "Sintimentunan Derá, Sla Ekspresá": How Curaçaoans in the Netherlands Perceive Partner Violence
Kristen Martina
23 Venezuelan Sex Workers in Curaçao: Rethinking Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling in Curaçao's Refugee Crisis
Beatriz César Loureiro
24 Women and Power
Maria Liberia-Peters
25 Gender Equality and Justice in Aruba: Policies and Practices
Evelyn Wever-Croes
SECTION 3
26 Contesting Respectability and Sexual Politics in Post-Emancipation Curaçao
Rose Mary Allen
27 A Paragraph in the Unwritten History of Lesbian Love in the Caribbean: Amor Di Kambrada
Aart G. Broek
28 No Rhythm (You)
Lysanne Charles
29 Women Who Love Women in Curaçao: From "Cachapera" to Open Throats: A Commentary in Collage
Joceline Clemencia
30 Forma Di Papia (Ways of Speaking) in the Dutch Caribbean and their Relevance for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
Louis Philippe M. Römer
31 I have to Come Out [Mi Tin Ku Sali]
Gilbert Bacilio
32 You Think Too Much like a Dutch Woman [Bo Ta Pensa Muchu Manera Makamba]
Frida Domacassé
33 Intimacy and Integration: The Ambivalent Achievement of Marriage Equality in the Dutch Caribbean, 2007-2012
Chelsea Schields
34 Sissies and Pancake Makers in Curaçao: Homosexuality as Shock Therapy
Vincent Sleebe
35 A Queer Cultural Perspective from Curaçao
Mario Kleinmoedig
36 Studies on Trans* and Same-Sex Loving People in Curaçao: A Review Essay
Wigbertson Julian Isenia
37 My Truth [Mi Bèrdat]
Crisèn Schorea
SECTION 4
38 Women's Literary Production in the Dutch Caribbean
Elisabeth Echteld & Wim Rutgers
39 The Semiotics of Dark Clouds in Songs and Poems of Elia Isenia: Art as Female Therapy
Joceline Clemencia
40 Tambú and the Arawak Princess Diyani: The Performance of History, Myth and Ritual
Nanette de Jong
41 Sex, Spirit and the Artist in the Films of Felix de Rooy
Jean Antoine-Dunne
42 St. Maarten is Like My Lover
Lysanne Charles
43 Muhé Di Rancho, Be(com)ing with Calco: A Caribbean Feminist Practice for Decolonial Life Writing
Nadia Dresscher-Lambertus
44 Saba Lace: History, Culture and Art
Eric A. Eliason
45 Making Up the Rules on My Own
Linda Richardson
46 Fridi Martina: A Brief Biography
Philie van Veen
47 Baptism of Fire
Fridi Martina
48 Mother Rock [Baranka Mama]
Fridi Martina
49 Chakutoe: A Play about the Port Strike of 1922 in Curaçao
Gilbert Bacilio
50 Woman [Muhé]
Imelda Valerianus-Fermina
