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Subversive Sexualities: Revolutionizing Gendered Identities

To remember is to live.

Ruth Behar, Bridges to Cuba

REVOLUTION THROUGH THE BODY

Although Caribbean women of all racial backgrounds have been redefining traditionally gendered roles over the past several decades, sexuality presents the last frontier to pervasive, deep-reaching change. Indeed, in the Caribbean context, academic investigations of lesbian lives remain a startlingly incoherent area of exploration despite advances in other areas of women's and feminist studies in the region generally. It is this very present absence which has compelled me in this essay. I suspect that the overwhelming silence around women's sexuality and, specifically, the taboos that remain in place in the ...

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