Gender and Domestic Violence in the Caribbean
Domestic violence, interpersonal violence, intimate partner violence, or gender-based violence continues to be a social problem that is rarely understood or discussed in many parts of society, worldwide. The same holds true in the Anglophone Caribbean. Most Caribbean societies are patriarchal in nat...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2021, 2021
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2021 |
Series: | Gender, Development and Social Change
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Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Domestic violence in the Caribbean – Are our solutions effective?
- Chapter 3: Symbolic violence in the Postcolonial Anglo-Caribbean
- Chapter 4: Exploring Domestic Violence Issues and Resolutions through Epic Theatre and Forum Theatre: The Good, the Baddesse and the Ugly
- Chapter 5: Phenomenology as Methodology for Narrating Gender Perceptions on ‘Linguistic Violence’
- Chapter 6: Literature as an Agent of Change
- Chapter 7: Trinidad and Tobago’s Legal Response to Domestic Violence-Incomplete and Inadequate without a Focus on Achieving Substantive Equality
- Chapter 8: Historicizing Domestic Violence: The Ills of Indenture ship?
- Chapter 9: The personal is political: domestic violence and feminist participation in Bolivarian Venezuela
- Chapter 10: Literary Evocations of Violence (Psychic and Physical) in Selected Works by Indo-Trinidadian Women Writers
- Chapter 11: Understanding Domestic Violence from the perspective of Trinidadian Men
- Chapter 12: Psychological reasons women stay in abusive relationships: Case studies in Trinidad and Tobago
- Chapter 13: The Women in Seafood Landscape: A Look at the Social and Economic Challenges of Gender Based Violence
- Chapter 14: Surviving Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence
- Chapter 15: Deepening the dialogue – Strengthening domestic violence policy and charting a way forward
- Chapter 16: Accounting for Episodes of Domestic Violence in the Anglophone Caribbean: Novel Achievements in the Midst of Persistent Challenges
- Chapter 17: Through the eyes of the perpetrator: the historical and contemporary cultural context of intimate partner violence in the Caribbean
- Index.