Indo-Caribbean Feminisms: Charting Crossings in Geography, Discourse, and Politics

Abstract

The dominant notions of the Indo-Caribbean woman as Hindu, as passive, as heterosexual, as conservative, as submissive, as guardian of Indian culture via her body and her morality, continue to haunt us. This special issue of the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies pulls together a wide cross-section of voices—scholarly, artistic, and activist—to try to highlight the often unaddressed diversity of this community and to offer some sense of the critical and revolutionary interventions that Indo-Caribbean women are making in conversations about Caribbean femininity, politics, agency, and the nature of “authenticity” in diasporic contexts.