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Gender Negotiations Among Indians In Trinidad 1917-1947
Hardback Edition: 1/2002
This work is about the struggles of female and male descendants of Indian indentured migrants in Trinidad in the first half of the 20th century, each desiring to preserve some aspects of the gender system brought from India between 1845 and 1917, which were important
to their continued definition of ethnic identity and community in Trinidad. At the same time the situation of migration allows for challenges to the caste system of Hinduism and, for women and some men, new opportunities to confront the more restricting aspect of Indian patriarchy which followed them across the seas from India.
Contents:
Crossing the Black Water - from India to Trinidad, 1845-1917; gender in the definition of Indian identity in Trinidad; gender dynamics in the making of community; the reconfiguration of masculinity and femininity - negotiating with myth and symbols; renegotiating sexuality; family, marriage and love; the troubled legacy of history and love.
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Contents:
Crossing the Black Water - from India to Trinidad, 1845-1917; gender in the definition of Indian identity in Trinidad; gender dynamics in the making of community; the reconfiguration of masculinity and femininity - negotiating with myth and symbols; renegotiating sexuality; family, marriage and love; the troubled legacy of history and love.
Pages : 344
Publisher : Palgrave-Springer
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Social Sciences, Anthropology/archaeology, Sociology, Gender Studies, Gender Groups, Gender Studies: Women, Indigenous Peoples