Gender Negotiations among Indians in Trinidad 1917–1947
Description
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.
Keywords
Social ScienceGender StudiesEmigration & ImmigrationEthnic StudiesWomen's Studies
2002Book
Author(s)Patricia Mohammed
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780333962787
LanguageEnglish
