Butch Heterosexuality in Black Caribbean Womanhood

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

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.

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