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Gender and Domestic Violence in the Caribbean

Part of the Gender, Development and Social Change Book Series

Editors: Bissessar, Ann Marie; Huggins, Camille

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-73472-5

ISBN: 978-3-030-73471-8

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jun 23, 2021

1 - 10 of 17 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Bissessar, Ann Marie

Pages: 1 –7

[Domestic violence, interpersonal violence, intimate partner violence, or gender-based violence continues to be a social problem that is rarely understood or discussed in many parts of society, worldwide. The same holds true in the Anglophone Caribbean. Most Caribbean societies are patriarchal in...
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Chapter 2Domestic Violence in the Caribbean: Are Our Solutions Effective?

Stephenson, Jacqueline H.

Pages: 9 –22

[Domestic violence is referred to variously in the literature as intimate partner violence and/or family violence. It describes incidents and/or patterns of violence, threatening or controlling behaviour, in an intimate relationship, committed by one party against another (Kelly & Westmarland,...
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Chapter 3Symbolic Violence in the Postcolonial Anglo-Caribbean

Gomes, Shelene; Sanatan, Amílcar

Pages: 23 –38

[At the everyday level, violence is thought of as an immediate, physical attack with visible consequences. In this chapter we advocate for a broader view of domestic violence that considers the long-term, institutionalized, and naturalized forms of Caribbean patriarchal capitalism that are often...
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Chapter 4Exploring Domestic Violence Issues and Resolutions Through Epic Theatre and Forum Theatre: The Good, the Baddesse and the Ugly

Steele, Godfrey A.

Pages: 39 –65

[Confronting, responding to and interpreting domestic violence remain challenges, despite current efforts to mitigate and manage this problem and to understand and support victims and perpetrators. The UWI Department of Creative and Festival Arts presented Baddesse as its student production in...
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Chapter 5Phenomenology as Methodology for Narrating Gender Perceptions on “Linguistic Violence” as Domestic Violence

Rowtham, Moyia

Pages: 67 –85

[Reality may be deemed as a subjective construct especially if one considers the role of context as a means of situating and defining experiences. The lived experiences of an individual must be at the core of the interpretation and understanding of social phenomena. Whether interpreted as being...
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Chapter 6Literature as an Agent of Change

Pierre-Robertson, Petronetta

Pages: 87 –103

[A contextualization of the lived experiences of women is necessary for the prevention of domestic violence, a subcategory of violence against women. Unequal power relations, embedded in social relationships and institutions, have served to contribute to the perpetuation of violence against...
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Chapter 7Trinidad and Tobago’s Legal Response to Domestic Violence: Incomplete and Inadequate Without a Focus on Achieving Substantive Equality

France, Afiya

Pages: 105 –123

[Domestic Violence, which disproportionately affects women, is a manifestation of patriarchal gender stereotypes and gender-based power imbalances. Trinidad and Tobago’s legal response to domestic violence focuses on providing remedies and punishment for sufferers and perpetrators of abuse,...
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Chapter 8Historicizing Domestic Violence: The Ills of Indenture Ship?

Bissessar, Ann Marie

Pages: 125 –137

[Trinidad and Tobago, a twin-island republic, is often categorized as a plural society. Often, in proposing solutions to address the phenomenon of Domestic Violence or what some suggest to be Intimate Partner Violence, the prescriptions suggest a one-size-fit-all solution. Many may argue, that...
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Chapter 9The Personal Is Political: Domestic Violence and Feminist Participation in Bolivarian Venezuela

Angeleri, Sandra; Cobo Echenagucia, María Mercedes

Pages: 139 –156

[First-person testimonies on domestic violence establish the links between Bolivarian macro-social structures, institutions and ideologies and micro-social experiences, aspirations, and activism. The form of the article contains a power politics of its own in foregrounding popular voices and...
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Chapter 10Literary Evocations of Violence (Psychic and Physical) in Selected Works by Indo-Trinidadian Women Writers

Chang, Victoria V.

Pages: 157 –173

[According to Paula Morgan, many of the social issues facing Caribbean islands today are “bound up with unresolved traumas bequeathed by the violent origins of the New World societies of the Caribbean” (Morgan, 2). The violent legacies of Caribbean peoples continue to pervade the literary...

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