Key Terms
MASCULINITIES
Multiple, diverse forms of masculine identity and performance; acknowledges gender stratification among men, not just be
SEXUALITIES
Multiple, diverse sexual identities and practices; not biologically fixed but socially negotiated (Weeks 1995).
GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT (GAD) APPROACH
Feminist framework originating in the 1980s; places gender at the center of development; examines how social, reproducti
PATRIARCHY
System of social organization in which men hold primary power; in Jamaica, concentrated in middle-class, heterosexual me
REPRESSION HYPOTHESIS (FOUCAULT)
Argument that during the Victorian era, state power deliberately suppressed sexuality; Foucault questions both whether t
PSYCHIATRIZATION OF PERVERSE PLEASURE (FOUCAULT)
Classification of sexual instinct as biologically distinct; treats sexual drives as conditions requiring management or t
SOCIALIZATION OF PROCREATIVE BEHAVIOR (FOUCAULT)
Treating the bodies of couples as belonging to the state; promoting social responsibility through birth control and repr
POSITIONALITY
The researcher's social, cultural, and personal position and how it shapes the research; the authors are explicit that t
HEGEMONIC MASCULINITY
The dominant, socially idealized form of masculinity within a given context; in Jamaica, this is heterosexual, aggressiv
POWER RELATIONS (FOUCAULT)
The web of power dynamics that structure social life; not centralized in one authority but present throughout all social