Gender-Based Violence in the Caribbean (Paperback)

Dalea Bean

ISBN 10: 9766580286 / ISBN 13: 9789766580285

Published by University of the West Indies Press, Kingston, 2025

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Paperback. Since the 1990s, Gender-Based Violence (GBV) has been contextualized as one of the primary endemic developmental issues affecting the lives of Caribbean people. Physical, verbal, sexual, emotional and financial violence against persons as a result of prevailing harmful gender norms has been recognized by Caribbean feminist scholars as crippling, particularly to women and girls who face the brunt of GBVs frontal assault. The contemporary situation is even more grim with rising cases of deadly violence against persons which are rooted in unequal power relations steeped in gender. However there exists no comprehensive academic text which delves deeply into the historical roots of these occurrences and frames them as a critical and deliberate part of the violent history of the region. European contact with the region was deliberately curated in violence. Mass slaughter of the Indigenous Peoples, vile atrocities under the system of chattel slavery that are yet to be fully acknowledged, indignities suffered by indentured immigrants and continued brutalities in the 21st century are well explored by numerous scholars. However, few are framed within the context of gendered analysis with the specific aim of tracing contemporary violence with their historic antecedents. A well needed intervention into the historiography of the region, the text will be organized thematically and chronologically and explore topics related to violence against women, men and children framed within discourses of gender, decoloniality, race, class, culture, disability studies and sexuality. Spanning six sections, the book brings together pioneering feminist scholars and new voices to examine gender-based violence through intersecting frameworks of race, class, religion, sexuality and nationhood. The essays reveal both the persistence of violent structures and the spaces where resistance, agency and transformation take shape. While Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gender-Based Violence in the Caribbean (Paperback)
• Publisher: University of the West Indies Press, Kingston
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9766580286
• ISBN 13: 9789766580285
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Gender-Based Violence in the Caribbean: Historical Roots, Contemporary Continuities is a landmark collection that addresses one of the region’s most pressing crises. Edited by Dalea Bean and Verene A. Shepherd, the volume traces the historical roots of gender-based violence, showing how enslavement, colonial domination and systemic inequalities became embedded in cultural norms and everyday life. Contributors draw on court records, literature, music, oral histories and archival sources to uncover how violence – physical, psychological and symbolic – was normalized and perpetuated across generations.

 

Spanning six sections, the book brings together pioneering feminist scholars and new voices to examine gender-based violence through intersecting frameworks of race, class, religion, sexuality and nationhood. The essays reveal both the persistence of violent structures and the spaces where resistance, agency and transformation take shape. While unsparing in confronting injustice, the collection also highlights resilience, activism and movements for change. This volume offers indispensable insights for scholars, policymakers, advocates and communities committed to ending gender-based violence in the Caribbean.

About the Authors

Dalea Bean is head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. A specialist in women and gender in Caribbean history, she is the author of Jamaican Women and the World Wars (2017) and Jamaican Women of Distinction (2020), contributing significantly to feminist Caribbean scholarship.

Verene A. Shepherd is professor emerita of history and gender studies at The University of the West Indies. Her research spans Jamaican economic history, slavery, reparations and gender discourses. She is the author of several influential works, including Livestock, Sugar & Slavery and I Want to Disturb My Neighbour.