Critical Caribbean Perspectives on Preventing Gender-Based Violence

Ramona Biholar, Dacia L. Leslie, Ramona Biholar, Dacia L. Leslie

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781000592214
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Scienze sociali
• Subtopic: Studi di genere

This book explores the widespread problem of gender-based violence in the Anglophone Caribbean, exploring reasons for its perpetuation and proposing viable policy and programming solutions to prevent it. Drawing on the work of a multidisciplinary team of Caribbean researchers and practitioners, the book explores the ways in which violence victimisation and perpetration have been socially and institutionally shaped, and supported by fixed gender codes.

Key themes in the book include the institutional frameworks and structural inequalities that perpetuate gender-based violence, the role of the church both in perpetuating the problem and its potential to combat it, the role of law, access to justice, and governmental and non-governmental responses to gender-based violence. The book covers violence against women, but also explores women as perpetrators, men and boys as victims, and gender-based violence against young persons. It also demonstrates the ways in which gender-based violence can further marginalise already marginalised groups, such as members of the LBTQ+ community or persons with disabilities.

Bridging the divide between academia, government, and civil society, this book challenges the normalisation of gender-based violence in the Anglophone Caribbean and proposes viable, culturally relevant solutions for prevention. It will be of interest to researchers and practitioners working on issues related to gender, the Caribbean, global development, criminology, and human rights.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• List of Contributors
• List of Figures and Tables
• Foreword
• Critical Inquiries of Gender-Based Violence in the Anglophone Caribbean: An Introduction
• 1 Looking Back to Move Forward: A Historical Reflection of Gender-Based Violence and Intimate Partner Violence in Jamaica During Slavery
• 2 Gendering “Smadditisation”: Labour and Violence in the (De)Colonisation of Afro-Jamaica Consciousness
• 3 Discriminatory Laws: The Normalisation of Sexual Violence in Anglophone Caribbean Sexual Violence Laws
• 4 Gender-Based Violence Against Caribbean Women: Femicide – A Major Gap in the Legislative Framework
• 5 The Role of Sexual Offence Courts in Furthering the Feminist Project of Eliminating Sexual Violence and Women’s Subordination
• 6 The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Reframing the Discourse of Sexual Violence in the Anglophone Caribbean
• 7 The Church, IPV, and LBTQ+ in Jamaica: An Initial Conversation
• 8 Psst, My Sexy Friend: Investigating Women’s Experiences of Hetero/Sexist Harassment in Public Spaces in Barbados
• 9 Restoring the Lives of Boys on the Margins in Trinidad and Tobago: Lessons From State-Led and Civil Society Interventions
• 10 Violence Against Persons With Disabilities and the Responsiveness of the Justice System in Jamaica
• Conclusion: Towards Ending All Forms of Gender-Based Violence in the Anglophone Caribbean
• Glossary of Key Terms
• Index