Caribbean Feminisms

Catalog description

This course is a study of the emergence and reconfiguration of Caribbean feminisms through the region’s history of women’s and gendered oppressions, subversions and resistances, taking into consideration colonialism, indigeneity, slavery and indentureship, transnationality, and race, ethnicity, sexuality, and class. Attention is also paid to strategies for knowledge production that have been utilised for studying Caribbean gender and sexuality and to the types of research these have produced. Threaded through the course will be an ongoing focus on a recent InterGuyanas feminism initiative that spans the Dutch, English and French-speaking Guyanas. This course is intended for juniors and seniors, but others may be given special permission to register. Students should have some prior knowledge of the Caribbean and/or Gender Studies.