Butch Heterosexuality in Black Caribbean Womanhood - Exploring Gender Performance and Sexuality

This critical text proposes new ways of conceptualizing Black womanhood by challenging plantation patriarchal culture, its binary constructions, and methods of Black heterosexual coupling.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Breaking Silence: State/Family Dysfunction and Plantation 3. Butch Heterosexuality: Black Women Are (Gender) Innovators 4. Redefining Heterosexual Partnership: Building Anti-Patriarchal Relationships by Prioritizing Healing

About the author

Marsha Myrie Obi, PhD, is a Caribbean researcher, whose research explores the intersections of womanism, Black studies, philosophy as praxis and intellectual history. She works with embedding anti-oppressive and inclusive pedagogies in PWIs and is an adjunct professor in Political Science at the University of Guelph, Ontario. She is the master advocate in the survivor-led group Operation Safe Space in Barbados.

Product details

• Authors: Marsha Myrie Obi
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.11.2025
• EAN: 9781032855691
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3285569-1
• No. of pages: 116
• Series: Leading Conversations on Black Sexualities and Identities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), Trauma & shock, Family psychology, Psychotherapy, Colonialism & imperialism, Feminism & feminist theory, Trauma and shock, Colonialism and imperialism, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Gender studies: men and boys, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Gender Studies: Men, National liberation and independence, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity, Couple and Family psychology