Reflections on the Women's Movement in Trinidad

Women in Trinidad have made enormous gains during the last twenty years in relation to equality in education, employment and equal pay. Nevertheless, there has been a backlash which is experienced by all women regardless of class, ethnicity, professional standing, or position. It is as if the society (read male-dominated patriarchy) allows women freedom on the one hand, but ensures that there are still mechanisms for control. My hypothesis is that violence, the ultimate and most fundamental form of control over a person, is the mechanism which is used to keep women from 'getting outta hand' in Trinidad. The lyrics of some calypsos give us a revealing picture of attitudes to changing gender relations, and in particular to violence towards women

Art · Backlash · Criminology · Economics · Ethnic group · Feminism · Gender relations · Human sexuality · Lyrics · Movement (music) · Patriarchy · Position (finance) · Sexual violence · Sociology · Women's studies · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cultural Studies · Gender Studies

• Music and Social Movements

  Open Access•William F Danaher•Sociology Compass•2010

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• Intimate Partner Abuse and Women's Employment

  Linda Hadeed, Y S Lee et al.•Journal of Poverty•2010

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• Re-dyeing the cloth

  Diana E Wells•Identities•1999

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• The Politics of Gender Violence

  Open Access•Mindie Lazarus‐black, Mindie Lazarus-Black et al.•Law & Social Inquiry•2003

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• The (Heterosexual) Regendering of a Modern State

  Open Access•Mindie Lazarus‐black, Mindie Lazarus-Black•Law & Social Inquiry•2003

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• The rise of calypso feminism

  Open Access•Cynthia Mahabir•Popular Music•2001

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• Development and Calypso Culture

  Sara Abraham•Canadian Journal of Development…•2005

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• Performing Gender in the Trinidad Calypso

  Hope Munro Smith•Latin American Music Review•2004

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• Midnight's Children and the Legacy of Nationalism

  Patricia Mohammed•Callaloo•1997

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• This is De Test

  Open Access•Colleen Ballerino Cohen•American Ethnologist•1998

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• Law and the Pragmatics of Inclusion

  Open Access•Mindie Lazarus‐black•American Ethnologist•2001

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• Social Support Among Afro-Trinidadian Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence

  Open Access•Linda Hadeed, Linda F Hadeed et al.•Violence Against Women•2006

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• Intimate Partner Violence in Jamaica

  Open Access•Sharon Arscott‐Mills, Sharon Arscott-Mills•Violence Against Women•2001

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• Cultivating ‘new’ gendered food producers

  M S Thompson•Review of International Political…•2019

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• The Hearts of Men? Gender in the Late C. L. R. James

  Aaron Kamugisha, Angélique Kamugisha•Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of…•2011

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• Los feminismos afro en Latinoamérica y El Caribe, tradiciones disidentes

  Open Access•Gabriela González Ortuño•Investigaciones Feministas•2018

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• Intimate partner violence in the Caribbean

  Open Access•Halimah A F Deshong, Tonya Haynes•Global Public Health•2015

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• The Politics of Place

  Mindie Lazarus‐black, Mindie Lazarus-Black et al.•Human Organization•2006

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• Women, Theatre and Calypso in the English-Speaking Caribbean

  Open Access•Denise Hughes-Tafen, Denise C Hughes-Tafen•Feminist Review•2006

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