Reclaiming power

Women loving women and intimate partner violence in Guyana

Bibliographic Data

ID7315686
AuthorsPreity Kumar (0000-0001-6587-8648, University of Rhode Island, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume2
Issue2
Publication date2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Indentureship and its Legacies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2634-1999 • E-ISSN: 2634-2006
PublisherPluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.13169/jofstudindentleg.2.2.0006
OpenAlexW4385473318
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited28

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 how neoliberal restructuring policies implicate and affect women differently based on their positionality. While this work is critical in addressing intimate partner violence against women and children, the LGBTQ community in the region has remained vulnerable to violence at multiple levels of society. This article contributes to this work by focusing on same-sex intimate partner violence between women in Guyana. The aim of this article is twofold: first, to map out the traditional gendered framing of violence against heterosexual and women loving women; second, to argue that in Guyana’s context of persistent social, political and economic inequalities, women loving women use violence as a resource of resolution to reclaim and secure power

Criminology · Domestic violence · Framing (construction · Geography · Human sexuality · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Scholarship · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Sex work and related issues

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