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in the Anglophone Caribbean academy and society to grapple with
questions on women's ontology continues to find new crutches
for old misogynies in recent developments in Caribbean political
economy. The social, economic and cultural effects of globalization
are now being offered as the latest patriarchal devices to argue
against continuing feminist inquiries into women's subjectivities.
Caribbean feminist scholarship is poised at a critical juncture.
Having built on the earlier research that gave visibility to
women's lives one aspect is involved with critiquing theoretical
frameworks whose assumptions do not fully comprehend, the multiple
and differing realities for Caribbean women and men embedded
in Caribbean gender systems. Simultaneously Caribbean feminists
are creating new models and contributing new knowledge about
women's lives. It is precisely at this epistemological juncture
that the ravages of globalization, particularly its alleged
deleterious effects on Caribbean men ( in isolation from examining
any effects on Caribbean women) are being held out as to why
feminist inquiries should cease to focus on women's subjectivity.
The commitment to continuing to contribute to feminist epistemology
from a Caribbean perspective is being asked to take a back seat
to investigating men's gender identities and their alleged economic
and civic marginalization. This paper maintains that these positions
are but another strand of the same, resilient, enduring arguments
that are unwilling to accept women's right of being, women's
ontology without attaching some set of pre-qualifying conditions.
This paper analyses developments and setbacks in generating
Caribbean feminist knowledge against this background. |
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