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The Caribbean has always been at the mercy of the publishing
world. It does not possess a critical mass of buyers that
appeals to the contemporary publisher. It represents the exotica
of small, far flung isles in the imagination of the larger
world, simply there for sun, sand and other invented touristic
pleasures. How Caribbean peoples and scholars have self-reflexively
understood the visceral space is largely unimportant other
than as a temporary diversion if the political or ecological
event is considered sufficiently unique to deserve attention.
Thus, what Caribbean scholars may have to say about this precociously
settled space, valuable to the evolution of a new world culture,
remains on the margins of the women and gender studies publishing
world. This is despite the fact that for over two decades
now, there has been serious scholarship related to equally
serious activism in this area of work.
This Open Access Online Journal entitled, The Caribbean Review
of Gender Studies, is intended to offer a forum both to persons
already recognized in the field, as well as to new scholars,
to present work which is easily accessible and available to
our students and to readers as far and as wide as the web
can take it. These works should capture the realities and
contradictions of what is constituted as Caribbean, whether
it is generated within or outside of the geographical region.
For new scholars who seek to re-chart the terrain, the journal
welcomes scholarship and creative work done within the framework
of feminist and gender theorizing that is for and about the
Caribbean.
With no compromise in international standards of peer review,
the journal boasts an Editorial Board, an Advisory Board and
a Review Team which is drawn from reputable academic institutions
regionally and worldwide.
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