Abstract
Over the last four decades a significant body of feminist scholarship by and about Indo-Caribbean women has emerged. The same is not true for Indo-Caribbean men. The now classic essay by Neils Sampath (1993) continues to have resonance with its application of Peter Wilson’s “reputation and respectability” framework to Indo-Trinidadian male youth; yet much has changed since 1993. Using multidisciplinary sources, this chapter reviews the scholarship on Indo-Caribbean masculinities in the context of Caribbean masculinity discourses and the larger body of Indo-Caribbean and Caribbean feminist writing.
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Reddock, R. (2016). Indo-Caribbean Masculinities and Indo-Caribbean Feminisms: Where Are We Now?. In: Hosein, G.J., Outar, L. (eds) Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought. New Caribbean Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55937-1_16
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