Diana Fox
Biographic Data
| ID | 744032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana Fox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana |
| FAMILY NAME | Fox |
| SIGNATURE | FOX D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bridgewater State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“I Am Very Sexy, Sexy, Sexy”
This article focuses on the story of one transfeminine (transgen, in local parlance) wedding singer, Shabu, identifying through interviews, observation, and song analysis the possibilities of self-expression for transgens as well as for cisgender women who attend these performances. How have they carved out agency for themselves amid Kashmir’s territorial conflict over its sovereignty? The article demonstrates how Kashmiri gendered futures are in…
Stewards of Their Island
Stewards of Their IslandRastafari Women’s Activism for the Forests and Waters in Trinidad and Tobago—Social Movement Perspectives Diana J. Fox (bio) and Jillian M. Smith (bio) Introduction—Background to the Current Study In 2005 cultural anthropologist Diana Fox was teaching and doing research on a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, on the island of Trinidad. She was working with the University of the West …
Downtown Ladies
Review of: Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, A Haitian Anthropologist, and Self-making in Jamaica, by G.A. Ulysse
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Service Learning and Self-Reflexivity in Rural Jamaica
In March 1999 and 2000 I traveled to the rural community of Frankfield, Jamaica with four anthropology students from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, where I used to be employed. Having conducted fieldwork in Frankfield in 1991, 1995 and 1997, I had established relationships that made it possible for me to arrange for my students to live with Jamaican families and to volunteer in the primary and high schools, the clinic and the town lib…
Masculinity and Fatherhood Reexamined
This article examines contradictory perspectives on fatherhood in an agricultural community in Jamaica. In recent years, scholars of the Caribbean family have focused on fatherhood as part of a general island-wide concern over the development of positive male images. To date, studies of rural Jamaica have focused on female-headed households, generating some fairly stereotypical profiles of Caribbean men as irresponsible fathers and unfaithful, ab…
A Roman hypocausted building at Falkirk
Masculinity and Fatherhood Reexamined
This article examines contradictory perspectives on fatherhood in an agricultural community in Jamaica. In recent years, scholars of the Caribbean family have focused on fatherhood as part of a general island-wide concern over the development of positive male images. To date, studies of rural Jamaica have focused on female-headed households, generating some fairly stereotypical profiles of Caribbean men as irresponsible fathers and unfaithful, ab…
A Roman hypocausted building at Falkirk
Masculinity and Fatherhood Reexamined
This article examines contradictory perspectives on fatherhood in an agricultural community in Jamaica. In recent years, scholars of the Caribbean family have focused on fatherhood as part of a general island-wide concern over the development of positive male images. To date, studies of rural Jamaica have focused on female-headed households, generating some fairly stereotypical profiles of Caribbean men as irresponsible fathers and unfaithful, ab…
Service Learning and Self-Reflexivity in Rural Jamaica
In March 1999 and 2000 I traveled to the rural community of Frankfield, Jamaica with four anthropology students from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, where I used to be employed. Having conducted fieldwork in Frankfield in 1991, 1995 and 1997, I had established relationships that made it possible for me to arrange for my students to live with Jamaican families and to volunteer in the primary and high schools, the clinic and the town lib…
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Downtown Ladies
Review of: Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, A Haitian Anthropologist, and Self-making in Jamaica, by G.A. Ulysse
Stewards of Their Island
Stewards of Their IslandRastafari Women’s Activism for the Forests and Waters in Trinidad and Tobago—Social Movement Perspectives Diana J. Fox (bio) and Jillian M. Smith (bio) Introduction—Background to the Current Study In 2005 cultural anthropologist Diana Fox was teaching and doing research on a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, on the island of Trinidad. She was working with the University of the West …
“I Am Very Sexy, Sexy, Sexy”
This article focuses on the story of one transfeminine (transgen, in local parlance) wedding singer, Shabu, identifying through interviews, observation, and song analysis the possibilities of self-expression for transgens as well as for cisgender women who attend these performances. How have they carved out agency for themselves amid Kashmir’s territorial conflict over its sovereignty? The article demonstrates how Kashmiri gendered futures are in…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (3 works) · Cuban History and Society (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works)