Interrogating Gender, Kinship and Sexuality
The collections have a wealth of materials that focus on gender, sexuality and kinship throughout the region. These include works from literature, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies and social policy. Thematically, these focus on Caribbean kinship / family studies, women and gender, men and gender and LGBTQ. These materials are presented in this order as it reflects the chronology of their emergence on the scholarly agenda of the region.
Key catalogue subject themes:
Caribbean Area Women Economic Conditions / Women Caribbean Area Social Conditions ; Caribbean Area Women History ; Caribbean Area Women Social Conditions ; Caribbean Area Gender Identity ; Caribbean Area Family ; Caribbean Area Feminism.
Kinship studies
- Clarke, Edith - My mother who fathered me : a study of the family in three selected communities in Jamaica / with a preface by Sir Hugh Foot and introduction by M. G. Smith. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1406818~S24
- Douglass, Lisa The power of sentiment : love, hierarchy, and the Jamaican family elite http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1149938~S24
- Barrow, Christine. Family in the Caribbean : themes and perspectives http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1165282~S24
- Roopnarine J L and Brown J (Eds) (1997) Caribbean families : diversity among ethnic groups http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1766225~S24
- Smith, M. G (1962) West Indian family structure http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1320907~S24
- Greenfield, Sidney M (1966) English rustics in black skin: a study of modern family forms in a pre-industrialized society http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2255182~S24
- Blake, Judith. (1961) Family structure in Jamaica : the social context of reproduction http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1420411~S24
- Matthews, Basil. 1971 Crisis of the West Indian family : a sample study. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1316469~S24
- Olwig, Karen Fog (2007) Caribbean journeys : an ethnography of migration and home in three family networks http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2974078~S24
- Elsa Leo-Rhynie. 1993 The Jamaican family : continuity and change [Grace, Kennedy Foundation Lecture] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2198852~S24
- Smith, Raymond T. (1996) The matrifocal family : power, pluralism, and politics http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1072122~S24
- Smith, Raymond T (1988) Kinship and class in the West Indies : a genealogical study of Jamaica and Guyana http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2281841~S24
- Smith, Raymond T (1965) negro family in British Guiana : family structure and social status in the villages http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1118076~S24
- Rodman, Hyman (1971) Lower-class families: the culture of poverty in Negro Trinidad. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1354126~S24
- Chamberlain, Mary. (2006) Family love in the diaspora : migration and the Anglo-Caribbean experience http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2907701~S24
- Wells, Marilyn McKillop, (2015) Among the Garifuna : family tales and ethnography from the Caribbean coast http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3337483~S24
- Massiah, Joycelin. (1983) Women as heads of households in the Caribbean : family structure and feminine status http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3337483~S24
- D. Alissa Trotz (‘The Caribbean family?’) in Essed P, Goldberg D T and Kobayashi. A (Eds.) A companion to gender studies http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3134560~S24
- Gloria Cumper and Stephanie Dal (1979) Family law in the Commonwealth Caribbean http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1377201~S24
- Vallée, Lionel (1965) A propos de la légitimité et de la matrifocalité : tentative de ré-interprétation. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3150200~S24
- Slater, Mariam (1977) The Caribbean family : legitimacy in Martinique http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1410818~S24
- Buschkens, Willem F. L (1974) The family system of the Paramaribo Creoles http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1265917~S24
- Martínez-Fernández, Luis (1998) Fighting slavery in the Caribbean : the life and times of a British family in nineteenth-century Havana http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2757440~S24
- Niurka Pérez Rojas 1979 Caracteristicas sociodemograficas de la familia cubana, 1953- 1970 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1534760~S24
- Jorge E. Hardoy, Rosario Aguirre, Celita Eccher (eds) (1993) Las familias, las mujeres y los niños : estrategias de superación de la pobreza en América Latina y el Caribe http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1453651~S24
- Meriño Fuentes, María de los Ángeles, (2011) Familias, agregados y esclavos : Los padrones de vecinos de Santiago de Cuba (1778-1861) http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3267307~S24
- Arnaud F. Marks, René A. Römer, (eds) (1975) Family and kinship in Middle America and the Caribbean: proceedings of the 14th Seminar of the Committee on Family Research of the International Sociological Association, Curacao. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1359065~S24
- Wilma Bailey (1998) Family and the quality of gender relations in the Caribbean http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3134062~S24
Women and gender
The WICP (1979-1982) was a ground-breaking female-centred research project by the University of The West Indies that sought to better understand the lived realities of women in the Anglophone region. The goal was to develop a multidisciplinary economic, historical and social research agenda that could provide policy recommendations to counter numerous problems that Caribbean women face - http://www.jstor.org/stable/27862837
- #1 Forde, Norma Monica. (1981) Women and the law http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1537440~S24
- #2 Cave Hill, Barbados : Institute of Social and Economic Research (1982) Women and the family http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1377915~S24
- #3 Duncan, Neville C. (1983) Women and politics in Barbados, 1948-1981 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1384999~S24
- #4 Brodber, Erna. (1982) Perceptions of Caribbean women : towards a documentation of stereotypes http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1377909~S24
- #5 Cave Hill, Barbados : Institute of Social and Economic Research (1982) Women and education. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1381702~S24
- #6 Gill, Margaret and Joycelin Massiah. (1984) Women, work, and development http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1389921~S24
- Report on the status of women in the Commonwealth of Dominica / The Dominica National Council of Women. Roseau, Dominica : DNCW, http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2636569~S24
- Senior, Olive. (1991) Working miracles: women of the English-speaking Caribbean http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1165280~S24
- Mohammed, Patricia. (1999) Caribbean women at the crossroads: the paradox of motherhood among women of Barbados, St Lucia and Dominica http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2636469~S24
- Patricia Mohammed and Catherine Shepherd. (1988) Gender in Caribbean development: papers presented at the Inaugural Seminar of the University of the West Indies, Women and Development Studies Project http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2198862~S24
- Mohammed, Patricia (2002) Gendered realities: essays in Caribbean feminist thought / edited by Patricia Mohamed http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2786661~S24
- Trotz, D. Alissa (2008) Gender, generation and memory : remembering a future Caribbean [working paper] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3093895~S24
- Barriteau, Eudine. (1998) Engendering local government in the Commonwealth Caribbean http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3093905~S24
- Shepherd V, Brereton B, Bailey B. (1995) Engendering history : Caribbean women in historical perspective http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2290261~S24
- Gregg, Veronica Marie. (2005) Caribbean women : an anthology of non-fiction writing, 1890-1980 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2938422~S24
- Feminist and critical perspectives on Caribbean mothering / edited by Dorsía Smith Silva and Simone A. James Alexander. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3294149~S24
- Spitting in the wind: lessons in empowerment from the Caribbean / edited by Suzanne Francis Brown http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2646704~S24
- Freeman, Carla (2000) High tech and high heels in the global economy: women, work, and pink-collar identities in the Caribbean / Carla Freeman. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2910574~S24
- Freeman, Carla (2014) Entrepreneurial selves: neoliberal respectability and the making of a Caribbean middle class http://0-lib.myilibrary.com.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/?id=664800 [electronic resource]
- Mehta, Brinda J. (2009) Notions of identity, diaspora, and gender in Caribbean women's writing http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3145812~S24
- Elaine Campbell and Pierrette Frickey (1998) The whistling bird : women writers of the Caribbean [an anthology] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1783962~S24
- Gender in the 21st century: Caribbean perspectives, visions and possibilities edited by Barbara Bailey and Elsa Leo-Rhynie. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2788398~S24
- A quick guide to gender mainstreaming in education / Elsa Leo-Rhynie and the Institute of Development and Labour Law http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2633030~S24
- Gender: a Caribbean multi-disciplinary perspective / edited by Elsa Leo-Rhynie, Barbara Bailey, Christine Barrow. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1165283~S24
- Women's movements and organisations in the process of revolutionary transformation : the case of Grenada / R. Reddock. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2280043~S24
- Women plantation workers : international experiences / edited by Shobhita Jain and Rhoda Reddock. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1951389~S24
- Ngue, Julie Nack (2012) Critical conditions: illness and disability in Francophone African and Caribbean women's writing http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3298439~S24
- La danse sur le volcan / Marie Vieux-Chauvet ; [préface de Catherine Hermary-Vieille]. [Haitian historical novel, in French] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3256662~S24
- The bridge of beyond / Simone Schwarz-Bart ; translated from the French by Barbara Bray ; introduction by Bridget Jones. [womanist novel about Guadeloupe] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2928477~S24
- Federación de Mujeres Cubanas. Congreso (4th : 1985 : Havana, Cuba) Draft report, 4th Congress of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC). http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3294531~S4
- Zoé Valdés 1997 Yocandra in the paradise of nada : a novel of Cuba [feminist interjection, discontent with socialism – signed copy by author] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3232306~S4
- Women in Cuba: the making of a revolution within the revolution / Vilma Espín, Asela de los Santos, Yolanda Ferrer [introduction by Mary-Alice Waters]. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3225588~S24
- Ferly, Odile. (2012) A poetics of relation: Caribbean women writing at the millennium http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3225521~S24LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES 6th Floor PN849.C3 F47 2012
- Steve Gooch. 1978 The women pirates : Ann Bonney and Mary Read [Caribbean women and piracy , 18thcentury] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2943882~S4
- Momsen, Janet (1993) Women and change in the Caribbean : a pan-Caribbean perspective http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1165291~S24
Men and gender
- Quintyne, Kelvin. (2004) The darker side of black mas(k)ulinities : the representation of the black male in film http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3093899~S24
- Graham Dann (1987) The Barbadian male: sexual attitudes and practice http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1056451~S24
- Rhoda E. Reddock (2004) Interrogating Caribbean masculinities: theoretical and empirical analyses http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2943799~S24
- Wilson, Peter J. (1973) Crab antics : social anthropology of English-speaking Negro societies of the Caribbean http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1046881~S24
- Miller, Errol. (1991) Men at risk http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1282626~S24
- Chevannes, Barry. (2001) learning to be a man: culture, socialization, and gender identity in five Caribbean communities http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2794897~S24
- Lovelace, Earl (1979) The dragon can't dance http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1103412~S24
- Controversia / El Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográfica, Orlando de la Huerta & Rolando Diaz. [videorecording - Documentary on machismo amongst rural Cuban peasants] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3048738~S24
- Caribbean male : endangered species? / Keisha Lindsay. Not an open book : gender achievement and education in the Caribbean / Barbara Bailey. [2 Working papers] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2605181~S24
- On the corner : male social life in a Paramaribo Creole neighborhood / Gary Brana-Shute. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1369568~S24
- Unsettling masculinity in the Caribbean : facing a future without guarantees / Linden Lewis. [Working paper] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2939915~S24
LGBTQ in the Caribbean
- Nuestro Caribe : poder, raza y postnacionalismos desde los límites del mapa LGBTQ / Mabel Cuesta, editora. 2016 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3375776~S24
- King, Rosamond S. Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3356305~S24
- Thomas Glave - Our Caribbean : a gathering of lesbian and gay writing from the Antilles http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3072469~S24
- Campbell, Kofi Omoniyi Sylvanus 2014 The queer Caribbean speaks : interviews with writers, artists, and activists / Kofi Omoniyi Sylvanus Campbell. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3309969~S24
- Citizenship from below : erotic agency and Caribbean freedom / Mimi Sheller. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3242408~S24
- Moshe Morad Fiesta de diez pesos [electronic resource] : music and gay identity in special period Cuba http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3321763~S12
Featured Bibliographies
- The family in the Caribbean: a list of references to the literature held in the Library, UWI, St. Augustine. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2417236~S24
- Rawlins, Joan M. (1987) The family in the Caribbean, 1973-1986 : an annotated bibliography http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2198798~S24
- Wilkinson, Audine (1994) The family in the Caribbean, 1986-1993 : a select bibliography http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2417775~S24
- Cáceres Cruz, Virgen (1990) Bibliografía preliminar sobre la familia puertorriqueña, por órden alfabético y por temas, desde 1940 al presente http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2607358~S24
- Massiah, Joycelin. (1979) Women in the Caribbean : an annotated bibliography; a guide to material available in Barbados http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2294249~S24
- Gill, Margaret.(1984) Women, work, and development (Eastern Caribbean) http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1389921~S24
- Brathwaite, Joan A. (1999) Women and the law : A bibliographical survey (of the Commonwealth Caribbean) http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2626407~S24
- Berrian, Brenda F. (1989) Bibliography of women writers from the Caribbean http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2123830~S24