Table of Contents

Critical Inquiries of Gender-Based Violence in the Anglophone Caribbean: An Introduction Ramona Biholar, Chapter 1: Looking Back to Move Forward: A Historical Reflection of Gender-Based Violence and Intimate Partner Violence in Jamaica During Slavery Dalea Marie Bean, Chapter 2: Gendering "Smadditisation": Labour and Violence in the (De)Colonisation of Afro-Jamaica Consciousness Marvin D. Sterling, Chapter 3: Discriminatory Laws: The Normalisation of Sexual Violence in Anglophone Caribbean Sexual Violence Laws Ramona Biholar, Chapter 4: Gender-Based Violence against Caribbean Women: Femicide - A Major Gap in the Legislative Framework Barbara Evelyn Bailey, Chapter 5: The Role of Sexual Offence Courts in Furthering the Feminist Project of Eliminating Sexual Violence and Women’s Subordination Anika Gray, Chapter 6: The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Reframing the Discourse of Sexual Violence in the Anglophone Caribbean Janeille Zorina Matthews, Chapter 7: The Church, IPV and LBTQ+ in Jamaica: An Initial Conversation Anna Kasafi Perkins, Chapter 8: Psst, My Sexy Friend: Investigating Women’s Experiences of Hetero/Sexist Harassment in Public Spaces in Barbados Karen Andrea Philip, Chapter 9: Restoring the Lives of Boys on the Margins in Trinidad and Tobago: Lessons from State-Led and Civil Society Interventions Godfrey St. Bernard, Shivana Chankar, and Safia King, Chapter 10: Violence Against Persons With Disabilities and the Responsiveness of the Justice System in Jamaica Floyd Morris, Conclusion: Towards Ending All Forms of Gender-Based Violence in the Anglophone Caribbean Dacia L. Leslie