Whose Time Is It? Gender and Humanism in Contemporary Caribbean Feminist Advocacy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4195543 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michelle V Rowley (0000-0001-6511-7662, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-15 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1534-6714 • E-ISSN: 0799-0537 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/07990537-2009-040 |
| OpenAlex | W2121928556 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 15 |
Why has the category "gender" not figured transformatively in anti-colonial resistance, or nationalist politics in the region? This is a question posed in this forum by literary scholar Natasha Barnes (1991). Despite the centrality that Caribbean feminists have accorded to "gender" in their pursuit of social justice I argue that "gender's" analytical marginalization persists because the philosophical underpinnings of these nationalist/anticolonialist projects have all but insisted upon the supplanting of gender by race. Toward this end, I examine the fraught role that "gender' plays in Frantz Fanon's work by revisiting his engagement with Mayotte Capécia's Je Suis Martiniquaise. For post-colonial subjects the assertion of one's humanity is simultaneously a claim of one's value. While, Caribbean feminists have deployed gender as the primary category through which a critique of human condition is invoked I argue that is now woefully inadequate when faced with the complex terrain of 21st century Caribbean feminist advocacy
Colonialism · Feminism · Humanism · Icon · Nationalism · New Woman · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
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Gender Negotiations among Indians in Trinidad 1917–1947
Engendering History
Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650–1832
Women's Organizations and Movements in the Commonwealth Caribbean
Nationalism in hybrid spaces
Issues of Difference in Contemporary Caribbean Feminism
Black Power in the Caribbean Context
A Loving Freedom
But Most of all mi Love me Browning
Bodies That Matter
Feminist Theory, Justice, and the Lure of the Human
| Citations per year | 0.42 |
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| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |