Here is a call for contributors that we would like to share with our colleagues, graduate students, and activists. Tonya Haynes and Halimah DeShong, both from the University of the West Indies, are co-editing the Routledge Companion to Gender and Feminist Studies in the Caribbean. The call is available at this link and below. The deadline for abstracts is June 30, 2024. 

Call For Contributors: Scholars of Gender and Feminist Studies working from and on Suriname, Aruba, Curaçao, Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Haiti, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, the USVI, Sint Maarten, the Circum-Caribbean, and Caribbean diaspora are invited to submit a chapter to The Routledge Companion to Gender and Feminist Studies in the Caribbean. Chapters should be about 5000-7000 words, exclusive of references, and are due August 30, 2024.

If you are willing to contribute a chapter, we ask that you submit an abstract of about 400 words via this link or via email  to nbupublications@cavehill.uwi.edu by June 30, 2024. Submissions are accepted in French, Spanish and English. 

About The Routledge Companion to Gender and Feminist Studies in the Caribbean:

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Feminist Studies in the Caribbean is a prestige volume offering broad insight into the field of Caribbean Gender and Feminist Studies.  It brings together multi- and interdisciplinary scholarship which is empirically driven and previously unpublished. We wish to accurately represent a diverse, multilingual and multi-ethnic Caribbean and to adequately present the breadth and depth of Caribbean feminist research. We are most interested in work which examines gender identities and representations, unequal relations of gender, the structural violence of gender, the centrality of gender in shaping geography, work, love, labour, family and economy as well as diverse forms of gender-based activism and organising, Gender and Development practice, and gender and sexuality. We seek evidence-based work which theorises, engages, critiques and operationalises gender from a range of perspectives including anti-colonial and decolonial work as well as intersectional and critical approaches to the study of gender systems, relations, and identities. 

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Feminist Studies in the Caribbean comprises four sections:

1. Histories, Theories and Contexts

 2. Identities, Representations and Power 

3. Gender Injustice and Inequities 

4. Gender and Sexuality

About the Editors

Dr. Tonya Haynes researches primarily in the area of Caribbean feminisms and Caribbean feminist thought. She is co-editor (with Dr. Andrea Baldwin) of Global Black Feminisms: Cross Border Collaboration Through an Ethic of Care (Routledge 2023) and co-Principal Investigator (with Dr. Nicole Charles) of Diabetes and the Afterlife of Slavery in Barbados: Art, Archive and the Gendered Dimensions of Risk. Her work is published in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, Social and Economic Studies, Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies, Global Public Health, sx archipelagos, and the Scholar and Feminist Online. She has taught at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies: Nita Barrow Unit, University of the West Indies since 2012. 

Dr. Halimah DeShong is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Institute for Gender & Development Studies: Nita Barrow Unit, at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. Dr. DeShong is an experienced feminist researcher, specialising in gendered and gender-based violence, feminist methodologies, anti-colonial feminisms, qualitative interviewing, and the analysis of talk and text. She is the co-editor of the books Methodologies in Caribbean Research on Gender & Sexuality (2021) and COVID-19 and the Caribbean Volumes 1&2 (2023) and is currently completing another book length manuscript on gendered violence and Caribbean society based on qualitative interview data and document analysis. She is joint and single editor of five special issues of academic journals on Feminist Methodologies; Men and Masculinities; and Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in the Caribbean.

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