Scholarly investigations into male and female sexuality over the life course have long occupied two separate "camps": One focused on the biological aspects of sexuality and one focused on the sociocultural/political aspects. This bifurcated approach has been particularly ill suited for the study of sexual desire, a topic that has been generally undertheorized by sex researchers. A modern reappraisal of gender and sexual desire is proposed that takes into coordinated account both the biological and sociocultural/political factors that produce and shape subjective sexual desires over the life course. The specific relevance of this approach for three particular topic areas, adolescent sexual maturation, same-sex sexuality, and sexual dysfunction, is addressed. Methodological approaches to the study of gender and sexuality capable of investigating how cultural and biological factors intersect to shape the subjective quality of men's and women's desires at different points in the life course and within different sociocultural and interpersonal contexts are advocated.

Desegregating Sexuality Research: Cultural and Biological Perspectives on Gender and Desire

As we turn the corner on the 21st century, a great deal of discussion (popular, academic, and otherwise) has focused on this moment as heralding a giant leap toward heretofore unimagined ways of life. The unprecedented transformations the world is to witness are viewed largely in terms of increasing and intensifying globalization-a world bound ever more tightly, particularly through technological media and the flow of people and commodities across shifting and porous borders. These currents tend to be portrayed as distinct from earlier such processes, in speed as well as intensity.1 Moreover, for at least some scholars, acceleration and potency are presumed to engender diversity. As Ulf Hannerz argued in an early consideration of these macrocosmic transformations, "the world system, rather than creating massive cultural homogeneity on a global scale, is replacing one diversity with another; and the new diversity is based relatively more on interrelations and less on autonomy" (Hannerz 1987:555). Accordingly, he concludes, the idea of a "creole" culture "may be our most promising root metaphor" (1987:551), because creole cultures evoke the "sense of a continuous spectrum of interacting forms" (1987: 552).2 Depicted today as uncertain, variegated, and unfinished-as creole-the world seems to have found its emblem in the Caribbean.3 If the world is catching up to the Caribbean, the concept of creolization has long been a central symbol of the region-one might say a gatekeeping concept that establishes its defining characteristics.4 Proclaimed since its colonization as both crucible and

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Journey to the Center of the Earth:The Caribbean as Master Symbol

Based on theoretical developments in research on world-systems analysis, transnational migration, postcolonial and decolonial perspectives, whilst considering continuities of inequality patterns in the context of colonial and postcolonial realities, Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism proposes an original framework for the study of the long-term reproduction of inequalities under global capitalism. With attention to the critical assessment of both Marxist and Weberian perspectives, this book examines the wider implications of transferring classical approaches to inequality to a twenty-first-century context, calling for a reconceptualisation of inequality that is both theoretically informed and methodologically consistent, and able to cater for the implications of shifts from national and Western structures to global structures. Engaging with approaches to the study of class, gender, racial and ethnic inequalities at the global level, this innovative work adopts a relational perspective in the study of social inequalities that is able to reveal how historical interdependencies between world regions have translated as processes of inequality production and reproduction. As such, it will be of interest to scholars of sociology, political and social theory and anthropology concerned with questions of globalisation and inequality.

Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism

Examines Black pre-Civil War culture and the slave family, detailing sexual attitudes, courtship practices and wedding ceremonies, childrearing, familial roles, language, and discipline.

Free Negroes in the District of Columbia, 1790-1846@@@The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South

This essay offers a short overview of feminist history of science and introduces a new project into that history, namely feminist history of colonial science. My case study focuses on eighteenth-century voyages of scientific discovery and reveals how gender relations in Europe and the colonies honed selective collecting practices. Cultural, economic, and political trends discouraged the transfer from the New World to the Old of abortifacients (widely used by Amerindian and African women in the West Indies).1

Feminist History of Colonial Science

(1981). White ‘ladies’, coloured ‘favourites’ and black ‘wenches’; some considerations on sex, race and class factors in social relations in white Creole Society in the British Caribbean. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 245-262.

White ‘ladies’, coloured ‘favourites’ and black ‘wenches’; some considerations on sex, race and class factors in social relations in white Creole Society in the British Caribbean

The majority of works on Caribbean slavery, both contemporary and modern attribute to slave women a subordinate and passive role in slave resistance. By examination of every‐day acts of non‐cooperation, maronage, slave uprisings and the link between African religion and slave revolts, this paper argues that, on the contrary, women were active at all levels of slave resistance and made a significant and indispensable contribution to the slaves’ struggle against servitude. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between the West African cultural heritage of slave women and the nature of their participation in slave resistance. In conclusion it is suggested that this neglected area of the slave woman's life warrants further research as a crucial aspect of the slave experience in general.

Defiance or submission? The role of the slave woman in slave resistance in the British Caribbean

(1984). Towards emancipation: Slave women and resistance to coercive labour regimes in the British West Indian colonies, 1790–1838. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 222-243.

Barbara Bush

Papers

White ‘ladies’, coloured ‘favourites’ and black ‘wenches’; some considerations on sex, race and class factors in social relations in white Creole Society in the British Caribbean

Defiance or submission? The role of the slave woman in slave resistance in the British Caribbean

Towards emancipation: Slave women and resistance to coercive labour regimes in the British West Indian colonies, 1790–1838∗