Research Catalog

Title

Bindi : the multifaceted lives of Indo-Caribbean women / edited by Rosanne Kanhai.

Publication

• Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2011.
• ©2011

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kanhai, Rosanne
• Singh, Sherry-Ann

Description

vi, 251 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

• In contemporary times, the bindi (red dot between the eyebrows) is decorative is well as religious, and is worn by women of any marital status, Hindu or non-Hindu, in India, its diaspora and globally. Rosanne Kanhai uses the bindi to characterize how Indo-Caribbean women come into their own in multiple ways. The book is a sequel to Matikor: The Politics of Identity for Indo-Caribbean Women and showcases recent works that reflect a variety of disciplines, styles and topics that include considering Indo-Caribbean women in creative, artistic and performance text, historical and anthropological analyses, intersection with their "others" in the Caribbean and its diaspora, narratives of self, healing and spiritual growth, and roles in religion and cultural activities.
• Bindi "makes a significant contribution to the field. It has moved forward the debates started by the first generation scholarship on Indo-Caribbean women and gender. ... The essays offer a more dynamic set of debates that allow tradition to dialogue with contemporary in one breath, as real life docs."--Patricia Mohammed, Professor, Gender and Cultural Studies, and Campus Coordinator, School for Graduate Studies and Research, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago --Book Jacket.

Subjects

• Women, East Indian > Caribbean, English-speaking > Social conditions
• Women, East Indian > Trinidad and Tobago > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Women in the Ramayana tradition in Trinidad / Sherry-Ann Singh -- Rings, gifts and shekels : marriage and dowry within the Indo-Muslim community in Trinidad, 1930 to the globalized present / Halima Sa'adia Kassim -- Unlikely matriarchs : rural Indo-Trinidadian women in the domestic sphere / Shaheeda Hosein -- Finding self in the transition from East to West / Valerie Youssef -- No pure place of resistance / Gabrielle Jamela Hosein -- Women as invisible healers : traditional midwives of Trinidad and Tobago / Kumar Mahabir -- Identity, activism, and spirituality in the art of Bernadette Persaud / Brenda Gopeesingh -- Breaking with tradition : hybridity, identity, and resistance in / Anita Baksh -- Beyond fragile homes / Paula E. Morgan.

Call Number

Sc D 13-575

ISBN

• 9789766402389
• 9766402388

LCCN

2010542696

OCLC

662407923

Title

Bindi : the multifaceted lives of Indo-Caribbean women / edited by Rosanne Kanhai.

Publisher

Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2011.

Copyright Date

©2011

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Kanhai, Rosanne, editor.

Singh, Sherry-Ann, author. Women in the Ramayana tradition in Trinidad.

Research Call Number

Sc D 13-575