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050 00 $aHQ1525.7$b.M64 2002
100 1 $aMohammed, Patricia.
245 10 $aGender negotiations among Indians in Trinidad, 1917-1947 /$cPatricia Mohammed.
260 $aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;$aNew York :$bPalgrave in association with Institute of Social Studies,$c2002.
300 $axxi, 319 p. :$bill., maps ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliography and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: List of Tables and Figures xi -- Glossary xiii -- Acknowledgements xx -- 1 Introduction 1 -- Introduction I -- Indian Migration to Trinidad 4 -- The Idea of an Indian Community in Trinidad 6 -- The Centrality of Gender in Identity Formation 9 -- The Concept of Gender Negotiation 12 -- Crossing the Black Water: -- 2 From India to Trinidad, 1845-19171 -- Introduction 17 -- Ideological Hegemonies of Gender in India 19 -- Contestation of Ideological Hegemonies in India 23 -- Anti-colonial and Anti-patriarchal Struggles in India 25 -- The Context of Migration from India 29 -- The 'Indian Woman Question' 37 -- The First Negotiations 40 -- Caste and gender pollution 40 -- Female reproduction and production 42 -- Freedom and constraints within estate life 44 -- Interracial liaisons and violent retaliations 44 -- Female responses 46 -- The Twice Outcaste Sex 47 -- Gender in the Definition of Indian Identity -- in Trinidad 54 -- Introduction 54 -- The Colonial Order 55 -- Statutory Definitions of Difference within the Colonial Order 59 -- The Anti-colonial Discourse in Trinidad 62 -- The Indo-Trinidadian Nationalist Struggle 63 -- The Markers of Indian Ethnic Difference in Trinidad 69 -- Entrances and exits 69 -- Indian attitudes to the new society 73 -- Visual markers 75 -- Language and identity 77 -- Cultural Stereotypes 79 -- The Home versus the World: The Centrality of Gender 80 -- Preservation of the Race 83 -- 4 Gender Dynamics in the Making of Community 92 -- A Steady Labour Force 92 -- From Estate Labour to Land Acquisition: Relocating -- Community 104 -- Family Strategies 115 -- Conclusion 125 -- Appendices -- 4.1 Map of lots sold to villages of Lengua Village and -- surrounding areas 127 -- 4.2 Map of sugar and cocoa estates in Trinidad in the -- 19th and early 20th centuries 128 -- 4.3 Map of main towns and villages in the 19th and -- early 20th centuries in Trinidad 129 -- 4.4 Report of the Wages Committee of 1920 131 -- The Reconfiguration of Masculinity and -- Femininity: Negotiating with Myth and Symbols 134 -- Introduction 134 -- Continuities and Correspondence 137 -- Transmitters of Myth and Symbol 142 -- Ritual religious occasions 142 -- Orality and transmission of gender ideology 149 -- Transmission through literary sources: Newspapers, -- lectures and debating societies 154 -- Heroes and heroines of the silver screen 159 -- Negotiating with Symbols of Patriarchy 165 -- Patriarchal Symbols 168 -- Conclusion 174 -- 6 Renegotiating Sexuality 175 -- Introduction 175 -- Colonial Attitudes to the Sexuality of Indians 177 -- Christian Missionary Attitudes to Indian Morality and 182 -- Sexuality -- Colonial and Christian Morality 185 -- The Attitude to Indian Sexuality in Creole Trinidad 186 -- Negotiation of Sexuality among Indians 188 -- Violent confrontations 188 -- Village sanctions and control 190 -- Female Responses 194 -- Male Responses to a Subverted Patriarchy 202 -- Male Control of Female Sexuality 208 -- Conclusion 213 -- 7 Family, Marriage and Love 215 -- Introduction 215 -- Nata Ke Bhai to Pariwaar: The Recreation of Family and -- Kinship Systems 217 -- Internal Affairs: Marriage Negotiations in the Indian -- Community 226 -- The arrangement of marriages 227 -- Negotiating intimacy and gender relations in child 231 -- marriages -- Breakdown in arranged marriages 233 -- Successful arrangements 234 -- Education and the deferral of arranged marriages 238 -- From Respect to Romantic Love 247 -- Compromises Between Parents and Children 258 -- Conclusion 260 -- 8 The Troubled Legacy of History and Love 262 -- Notes 270 -- Bibliography 299 -- Index 312.
650 0 $aWomen$zTrinidad and Tobago$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aEast Indians$zTrinidad and Tobago$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aSex role$zTrinidad and Tobago$xHistory.
710 2 $aInstitute of Social Studies (Netherlands).
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol051/2002280478.html
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856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2002280478.html