Colonial pressures shaped Caribbean gender relations and blocked feminism as a spiritual force

Evidence

In large pan the respective attitudes of men and women in their relations here were detennined by colonial pressures. Collective dependence reinfùrced the “reproductive” machismo of male slaves but did not authorÎLe the appearancc of femininity as a spiritual counterfùrce, even if women were frequently centers of resistance. This is “vhy, perhaps, at least this is what l think, the women oLvlartinique and in many colonized countries have a tendency in their socialil<ltion to disregard feminism and to pass directly to various conquests ot power, both social and political. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 353

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial power relations were gendered and psychoanalytically structured; Colonial racial ideology shaped gendered relations under colonial capitalism.; Colonial nonintervention in women’s customs mirrored the metropole’s denial of women’s rights (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Colonial power relations were gendered and psychoanalytically structured #expands (0.82)
• Colonial racial ideology shaped gendered relations under colonial capitalism. #expands (0.80)
• Gender oppression is naturalized, masking its colonial material origins #expands (0.80) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 969
• Colonial power was symbolically encoded as masculine mastery over a feminized land #expands (0.78) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 619
• Colonial nonintervention in women’s customs mirrored the metropole’s denial of women’s rights #expands (0.76)
• Cross-racial colonial intimacies licensed women’s relative privilege and power #corroborates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1325