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Deconstructing Gender in Carnival : A Cross Cultural Investigation of a Social Ritual / Valeria Sterzi.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Postcolonial Studies ; 7Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2015]Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1. AuflDescription: 1 online resource (204 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783837613483
  • 9783839413487
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 394.2509729 23
LOC classification:
  • GT4223 .S74 2010
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Summary: This book explores the complexity of the dialectic relationship between ritual-like activities and social structure; focusing on women's increasing presence in Trinidad Carnival and the ways in which their participation becomes part of the conflict over the efforts to change the basic distribution of power within society. Femininity comes forward in Caribbean carnival as the sexualized body that unmasks power relations which are simultaneously affirmed and denied.Giving attention to the ideological process through which gender relations are constructed, this event is analysed in relation to economic, political, and social factors, as well as a consequence of the changes caused by the cultural clash of colonial and postcolonial society.
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This book explores the complexity of the dialectic relationship between ritual-like activities and social structure; focusing on women's increasing presence in Trinidad Carnival and the ways in which their participation becomes part of the conflict over the efforts to change the basic distribution of power within society. Femininity comes forward in Caribbean carnival as the sexualized body that unmasks power relations which are simultaneously affirmed and denied.Giving attention to the ideological process through which gender relations are constructed, this event is analysed in relation to economic, political, and social factors, as well as a consequence of the changes caused by the cultural clash of colonial and postcolonial society.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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