When the Closet is a Region: Homophobia, Heterosexism and Nationalism in the Commonwealth Caribbean (original) (raw)
Editor’s Note Working Paper number 5 began as a research project by undergraduate exchange student Tara Atluri to satisfy course work requirements for the course AR22B Women’s Studies. This is an introductory course offered in semester II of the academic year 1999-2000. Tara Atluri is presently completing her fourth and final year of undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto, St. George Campus, University College where she is pursuing an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in the Faculty of Arts and Science. Tara spent an academic year at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados where she completed various Law, Women’s Studies, Political Science and Literature courses. She became interested in the issue of homophobia in the Caribbean after noticing a correlation between attitudes of intolerance towards homosexuals and widely accepted sexual attitudes of intolerance towards women. She firmly believes that a women’s movement that remains unconnected to issues of homophobia is failing to examine the root ideologies upon which patriarchy and sexism are based, and is therefore patching things up without ever challenging the source of the problem. Tara Atluri’s work represents the output of a new generation of budding feminist scholars that the Centre for Gender and Development Studies at Cave Hill is committed to supporting.
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