Description
A first of its kind in the English-speaking Caribbean, this multi-disciplinary collection brings together contributions from a variety of Caribbean-based and diasporic researchers and activists about the main methods used in existing feminist research practice. Comprising 29 chapters organized around 7 main themes – History & Historiography; Methodologies for Feminist Organizing & Action Research; Researching Gender; Researching Sexualities; Researching the Visual & Cultural; Methods for Analysing Talk & Text; and Reflections on Positionality – this book brings together canonical texts on Caribbean gender and sexuality research methods and methodology, recent research on digital cultures and critical reflections on positionality in fieldwork. The collection reveals both the embrace of multiple methods by Caribbean researchers and the limitations that the need to produce detailed and comprehensive knowledge about gender and sexuality imposes on the research process.
It is an invaluable resource for university students, for teaching purposes in women, gender and sexuality studies, and methods courses.
Contents
Introduction
- Locating Methodologies in Research on Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean
Halimah A. F. DeShong and Kamala Kempadoo
HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY
- Recollections into a Journey of a Rebel Past
Lucille Mathurin Mair
- Gender and Memory: Oral History and Women’s History
Mary Chamberlain
- Women and Gender in Caribbean (English-speaking) Historiography: Sources and Methods
Bridget Brereton
METHODOLOGIES FOR FEMINIST ORGANIZING AND ACTION RESEARCH
- Feminist Action and Research in Haiti
Carolle Charles
- Feminist Research and Action Methodology:
The Experiences of the Caribbean Association of Feminist Research and Action
Frederica M. Deare
- Red Thread’s Research: An Interview with Andaiye
Kamala Kempadoo
- A Method of Decolonial Arts Practice
Honor Ford Smith
RESEARCHING GENDER
- Women in the Caribbean Project: An Overview
Joycelin Massiah
10 . Learning to be a Man
Barry Chevannes
- Gender Studies in Cuba: Methodological Approaches, 1974–2001
Marta Núñez Sarmiento
- Feminist and Quantitative: Measuring the Extent of Domestic Violence in Georgetown, Guyana
Linda Peake
- Interdisciplinary Feminist Research, Environment, and Community: The Nariva Swamp Case Study
Rhoda Reddock and Grace Sirju-Charran
SEXUALITIES RESEARCH
- No Tide, No Tamara/Not Today, Not Tomorrow
Gloria Wekker
- Embodied Theories: Local Knowledge(s), Community Organizing, and Feminist Methodologies in Caribbean Sexuality Studies
Angelique V. Nixon and Rosamond S. King
- Researching Caribbean Sexual Labour
Kamala Kempadoo
- Caribbean Sexualities and Ethnographic Research Methods
David A. B. Murray
- Subjective Mapping: A Brief Introduction
Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan
RESEARCHING THE VISUAL AND CULTURAL
- Defining Women Subjects: Photographs in Trinidad (1860s–1960s)
Roshini Kempadoo
- Feminist Witnessing: Creating Visual Media through Ethnographic Research
Deborah A. Thomas
- Decoding the Image as Method for Researching Culture
Patricia Mohammed
METHODS FOR ANALYSING TALK AND TEXT
- Reconceptualizing Voice: The Role of Matrifocality in Shaping Theories and Caribbean Voices
Michelle V. Rowley
- Studying Religious Mobilizations in the Anglophone Caribbean: A Feminist Critical Reading of Discourse
Latoya Lazarus
- Caribbean/Anticolonial Feminist Methods for Analysing Talk and Text in Research on Gender-Based Violence
Halimah A. F. DeShong
REFLECTIONS ON POSITIONALITY: LESSONS FROM THE FIELD
- Toward a Native Anthropology: Methodological Notes on the Study of Successful Caribbean Women by an Insider
Nesha Z. Haniff
- Anthropological Research Methods for the Study of Black Women in the Caribbean
- Lynn Bolles
- Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist, and Self-making in Jamaica
Gina A. Ulysse
- “Insider” Experiences and Ethnographic Knowledge: Reflections from Trinidad and Tobago
Gabrielle Hosein
- ‘You is One of We’: Positionality in the Field
Tami Navarro
About the Author
Kempadoo is Professor of Social Science at York University in Toronto.
Halimah A.F. DeShong is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies: Nita Barrow Unit at The University of the West Indies, and the 2020-2021 Ambassador/Second DPR of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the UN.
