{"product_id":"gender-variances-and-sexual-diversity-in-the-caribbean-perspectives-histories-experiences-9789766407414","title":"Gender Variances and Sexual Diversity in the Caribbean: Perspectives, Histories, Experiences","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eGender Variances and Sexual Diversity in the Caribbean: Perspectives, Histories, Experiences \u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of critical perspectives on fundamental questions of how sexual orientation and gender in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean are conceived, studied, discoursed and experienced. Bringing together and updating existing and in-progress scholarly work on minority genders and sexualities in the region, this collection seeks to provide a fresh set of lenses through which to examine the issues affecting people in the Caribbean who fall outside the traditional binary categories of heterosexual males or heterosexual females.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpening with a variety of perspectives - from the biological to the religious and historiographical - the volume explores definitions of sex and gender as well as constructions of sexuality among Commonwealth Caribbean scholars, and the ways in which the Judaeo-Christian tradition popular in the region has responded to these. Other chapters examine the socializing forces that reinforce or challenge conventional conceptions of gender and sexuality, and how these result in the constraining forces of social exclusion and discrimination that many members of the LGBTQ community in the region experience. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book ends with chapters that interrogate the normative standards of gender and sexuality that have traditionally underlain Caribbean popular culture. Additionally, there is an exploration of how anti-gay discourse in Jamaican dancehall, embedded in a language linked to the country's vernacular nationalism, has been neutralized by a coalition of local and international LGBTQ activists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-7671174\"\u003eMarjan De Bruin\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of the West Indies Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/22\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789766407414\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 976640741X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC012000\"\u003eLGBTQ+ Studies | Gay Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC032000\"\u003eGender Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarjan de Bruin\u003c\/b\u003e is Chair of the technical working group Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eR. Anthony Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor, Language Teaching and Research Centre, the University of Technology, Kingston, Jamaica.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of the West Indies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44438619881709,"sku":"9789766407414","price":37.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_12531e96-66f5-4efa-8337-bcb87c871df9.jpg?v=1700149850","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/gender-variances-and-sexual-diversity-in-the-caribbean-perspectives-histories-experiences-9789766407414","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}