Preity Kumar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589661 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Preity Kumar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Preity |
| FAMILY NAME | Kumar |
| SIGNATURE | KUMAR P |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6587-8648 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Queer Mapping as Decolonial Praxis
Review of Erotic Cartographies: Decolonization and the Queer Caribbean Imagination. Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2022. ix + 247 pp
Reclaiming power: Women loving women and intimate partner violence in Guyana
Intimate partner violence against women and children is a growing concern for feminist scholarship in the Anglophone Caribbean. This scholarship is significant in challenging patriarchal gender ideologies at the intersections of race, class and sexuality. This body of work reveals how violence is embedded in the state and governmental bodies, and highlights the overall disparities in the implementation of laws. Furthermore, this work demonstrates…
Queer Tactility: Same-sex Intimacies between Women in Chutney and Soca Music
As a space, pop culture is an epicenter for queerness; music, especially, has a history of giving LGBTQ subjects representation, visibility, and an opening to be subversive. Music is no different in the Caribbean region, as it plays an essential role in offering political commentary, reflecting the region’s changing values and culture, and speaking to the integration and barriers facing different ethnic groups. Significantly, music is a space in …
The Cauxin-femme binary: Femme performativity as a response to violence in Guyana
The Caribbean region has a long history of violence and conflict due to colonization and contemporary neocolonial policies and structures. The region's political, economic, and social climate is overshadowed by activism that centers legal repeal of homophobic laws left intact by colonial powers. These movements have created a polarization between the mainstream groups seeking legal changes, and those who are denied and erased from these discourse…
Reclaiming power: Women loving women and intimate partner violence in Guyana
Intimate partner violence against women and children is a growing concern for feminist scholarship in the Anglophone Caribbean. This scholarship is significant in challenging patriarchal gender ideologies at the intersections of race, class and sexuality. This body of work reveals how violence is embedded in the state and governmental bodies, and highlights the overall disparities in the implementation of laws. Furthermore, this work demonstrates…
The Cauxin-femme binary: Femme performativity as a response to violence in Guyana
The Caribbean region has a long history of violence and conflict due to colonization and contemporary neocolonial policies and structures. The region's political, economic, and social climate is overshadowed by activism that centers legal repeal of homophobic laws left intact by colonial powers. These movements have created a polarization between the mainstream groups seeking legal changes, and those who are denied and erased from these discourse…
The Cauxin-femme binary: Femme performativity as a response to violence in Guyana
The Caribbean region has a long history of violence and conflict due to colonization and contemporary neocolonial policies and structures. The region's political, economic, and social climate is overshadowed by activism that centers legal repeal of homophobic laws left intact by colonial powers. These movements have created a polarization between the mainstream groups seeking legal changes, and those who are denied and erased from these discourse…
Queer Tactility: Same-sex Intimacies between Women in Chutney and Soca Music
As a space, pop culture is an epicenter for queerness; music, especially, has a history of giving LGBTQ subjects representation, visibility, and an opening to be subversive. Music is no different in the Caribbean region, as it plays an essential role in offering political commentary, reflecting the region’s changing values and culture, and speaking to the integration and barriers facing different ethnic groups. Significantly, music is a space in …
Reclaiming power: Women loving women and intimate partner violence in Guyana
Intimate partner violence against women and children is a growing concern for feminist scholarship in the Anglophone Caribbean. This scholarship is significant in challenging patriarchal gender ideologies at the intersections of race, class and sexuality. This body of work reveals how violence is embedded in the state and governmental bodies, and highlights the overall disparities in the implementation of laws. Furthermore, this work demonstrates…
Queer Mapping as Decolonial Praxis
Review of Erotic Cartographies: Decolonization and the Queer Caribbean Imagination. Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2022. ix + 247 pp
Caribbean history, culture, and politics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Queer (3 works) · Sex work and related issues (3 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 works) · Art (2 works)