An Ordinary Landscape of Violence

Women Loving Women in Guyana

Preity R. Kumar (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

198 Seiten

2024
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-1904-7 (ISBN)

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An Ordinary Landscape of Violence: Women Loving Women in Guyana tells a new history of queer women in postcolonial Guyana. While the country has experienced a rise in queer activism, especially toward human rights efforts, members of the Guyanese queer community have also been victims of extreme violence. This book asks how a hetero-patriarchal state shapes queer and "women-lovin’ women’s" experiences, and how such women navigate racialized, sexualized, and homophobic violence. With a unique focus on the lives of queer women in Guyana, it reveals their manifold experiences of violence, explores regional differences, and shows their complicated understanding of what exactly constitutes “rights” and the limitations of those rights in their lives. While activism against violence is crucial, this book addresses not only the violence against women, but theorizes the intimate partner violence between women, and demonstrates the ways that violence is both racialized and sexualized.

PREITY KUMAR is an assistant professor of gender and women's studies at the University of Rhode Island.

Introduction: Babita’s Story 1

1 Statecraft and Affective Economies 33

2 Religious Affects: Fear and Shame 57

3 Queer in Berbice: Embodying Respectability 74

4 Between Women: Jealously, Desire, and Intimate Partner Violence 93

5 Still Life: Affective Landscapes of Death and Denial 111

Conclusion: Shallow Graves 129

Appendix 137

Acknowledgments 145

Notes 149

References 157

Index 177

Erscheinungsdatum	11.07.2024
Zusatzinfo	1 table
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-9788-1904-8 / 1978819048
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-1904-7 / 9781978819047
Zustand	Neuware