The discourse on gender to date has followed a fairly traditional trajectory having to do with concerns about definition of identity, privilege, inclusion or exclusion, recognition and valued worth. This paper will seek to expand the notion of Caribbean masculinity, not merely in terms of its functional ideology, but in terms of understanding the male body as an accumulation strategy. Using a political economy approach, this paper will explore the Caribbean male body as variable capital, subject to the regulations and demands of the market. It will address the extent to which men use power to control access to social status and valued resources. This work will attempt to place the body, not merely in some liminal space of a discourse on gender but in a socio-economic context from which it cannot be extricated and without which it is difficult to understand its true importance. In short, the argument here revolves around the idea that power is not some ubiquitous phenomenon but a relationship that is rooted in the material order of social class formation; a social arrangement which in effect, establishes the base for all other social relationships of which gender is one dimension. In this regard, the paper attempts to provide an epistemologically different approach to the study of masculinity, the body and the reproduction of patriarchy in the Caribbean.