...This chapter situates Afro-Trinidadian women within the complex ethno-history of the nation and highlights their roles as cultural agents over time. In the Caribbean, the music world and public culture in general has been male-dominated, and for the most part this continues to be the case...

...This chapter examines the ways that women have contributed to the steelband movement in Trinidad and Tobago over the course of its history, and the roles that they are now playing as pannists, arrangers, and educators. On the surface, steel pan music seems to differ from calypso or soca in terms...

... Heather Carver violence against women elaine At our house, as the only girl, I knew that certainly did not translate into “special.” It meant there was no way I could get my license when I turned sixteen. It meant there was no way I could go cruising in cars with my friends. It meant there was no way I...

...This chapter describes a prison scene involving two female ethnographers entering a prison. The lights then fade except for a spotlight on a prisoner named Rose, who begins to tell her story. prison ethnographers women prisoners Lights up on a prison scene encircled in a harsh spotlight...

...This book, which follows the collaboration between the author, a performance studies professor, and ethnographic folklorist Elaine J. Lawless, traces the creative development of a performance troupe in which women take the stage to narrate true, harrowing experiences of domestic violence...

...This chapter discusses how Walter Mosley’s rendering of African American women, particularly EttaMae Harris, a recurring character in the Easy Rawlins series, presents an alternative aesthetic in which they represent beauty, power, vulnerability, and Easy’s own longing for home. It presents...

... of the Innisfallen,” “Going to Naples,” “Circe,” and “No Place for You, My Love.” In addition, the chapter discusses the connection between traveling and family as well as familial violence against women in Welty’s works. Austen Jane “Moon Lake” Welty “At the Landing” Welty Delta Wedding Welty “Kin” Welty...

...Chapter Six explains how WIMS evolved into a professional exchange in 1965, sending interracial, interfaith teams of teachers, psychologists, librarians, and others and paired them with southern professional women. It discusses WIMS’s work with Head Start, the University of Mississippi Summer...

...This chapter describes the reactions to the selection of Julia Ward Howe as president of the Woman's Department of the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in 1884. Southern women were ready to showcase their skills and talents during the six months of the Cotton Centennial in New...

... Maulana Insan Budi movies Protect IPR Right Now Sukribo television Timun cergam silat comics Muslim comics wayang diary comics women cartoonists Comic art in Indonesia was robust in the 1960s and 1970s, then it almost died over the next two decades, and eventually it crawled back to life...

... and victimization of women. Moreover, the chapter searches for an autobiographical resonance in the film's male characters, particularly in the form of the lead character Bucky's (Josh Hartnett) troubled family memories and fraternal rivalry with his partner Lee (Aaron Eckhart). With the possible exception of its...

...Feminist geography has long considered the effect of geographic differences on gender relations and gender equality. In this essay, Lorie Watkins reads Faulknerian women, especially Linda Snopes Kohl, through the lens of feminist geography to reveal the nearly insurmountable social strictures...

... of “blackness,” America, and processes of Americanization are reconfigured by the presence of “black” bodies, and how such black bodies emerged as a new means through which America could be accessed and Germany occupied. The chapter also looks at the depiction of German women as naively romantic and ignorant...

...This chapter examines local African American women in Wiregrass County who served as the bulwark of their networks. It explains that these women achieved greater autonomy and provide examples of how women disrupt patriarchal structures. The chapter describes the experience of some women who defied...

... African American writing African American writers women authors southern home In critical studies of Harriet Jacobs and her slave narrative, Incidents in the Life a Slave Girl (1861), she is often positioned in one of two groups; either she is examined in the body of antebellum slave...

...This chapter establishes and examines the exceptional women paradigm and its consequences on the status of women directors in film histories. By privileging homogeneity in personal and artistic identity, and evading the regularized disrespect granted to women's directorial labor, the paradigm...

...The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries proved to be difficult and dynamic for Black Americans. The 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision all but entrenched the separate but equal doctrine. Yet, Black women responded to the legal precedents and social traditions that divided...

... a performance of grief and mourning. Welty's visual agenda was to preserve Victorian cemetery art, representations of social class, and comment on racial spaces. Additionally, Welty's cemetery photographs invite such emotional flexibility. The chapter mentions how Welty deliberately included women so...

... to white women, specifically locating their imagined role in their own redemption in their negotiation of their relationship to property through narratives of lynching and sexual violence. Doing so reveals how white masculine victimization was built on constructing and then displacing white feminine...

... featuring African American young women. Dealing with the twenty-first century contributions along, fiction writers and academic theorists have either been excluding African American young women from speculative fiction or refuse to place these young women in the role of hero. Further, theoretical...