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Gender Negotiations among Indians in Trinidad 1917–1947

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Authors:
  1. Patricia Mohammed

    1. Centre for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Jamaica

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Part of the book series: Institute of Social Studies, The Hague (ISSTH)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction

    • Patricia Mohammed
    Pages 1-16

  3. Crossing the Black Water: From India to Trinidad, 1845–1917

    • Patricia Mohammed
    Pages 17-53

  4. Gender in the Definition of Indian Identity in Trinidad

    • Patricia Mohammed
    Pages 54-91

  5. Gender Dynamics in the Making of Community

    • Patricia Mohammed
    Pages 92-133

  6. The Reconfiguration of Masculinity and Femininity: Negotiating with Myth and Symbols

    • Patricia Mohammed
    Pages 134-174

  7. Renegotiating Sexuality

    • Patricia Mohammed
    Pages 175-214

  8. Family, Marriage and Love

    • Patricia Mohammed
    Pages 215-261

  9. The Troubled Legacy of History and Love

    • Patricia Mohammed
    Pages 262-269

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 270-319
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About this book

This book is about the struggles of female and male descendants of Indian indentured migrants in Trinidad in the first half of the twentieth 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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Jamaica

    Patricia Mohammed

About the author

PATRICIA MOHAMMED is Head of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies at the University of West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica. She has published extensively on gender and feminist studies and is co-editor of Gender in Caribbean Development and co-author with Althea Perkins of Caribbean Women at the Crossroads.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gender Negotiations among Indians in Trinidad 1917–1947

  • Authors: Patricia Mohammed

  • Series Title: Institute of Social Studies, The Hague

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403914163

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Institute of Social Studies 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-96278-7Published: 16 January 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-42745-1Published: 16 January 2002

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-1416-3Published: 16 January 2002

  • Series ISSN: 2946-9945

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-9953

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 319

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Gender Studies, Migration, Ethnicity Studies

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