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    1. Close Encounters: Solidarity, Servitude and Postcolonial Feminist Affects and Affiliations

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    DeCaires Narain,Denise (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Winter2013
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Women
    Journal Title Details:
    24(4) : 274-297
    Notes:
    Offers close readings of three texts that foreground the problems, possibilities and struggle involved in forging affective connections across difference between women: Kate Clanchy,What is She Doing Here?, 2008, Jamaica Kincaid,Lucy, 1991a and Marlene Van Niekerk, ‘Labour’, 2004. Argues that the incomplete and partial nature of affective moments represented in these texts signals possibilities for a cautiously redefined idea of affective feminist solidarity as it is mobilized in the intimacy of domestic spaces.

    2. How eastern Afro-Caribbean women report about their intimate relationships: A descriptive and correlational study

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Brathwaite,Migdalia G. (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    101 p., Little published research describes views of intimate heterosexual relationships among non-Western samples of women. This study represents a first attempt to document Afro-Caribbean women's views about their intimate relationships. A small sample of 53 Afro-Caribbean women from the island of Barbados were interviewed in their homes for a larger study of body image. Included in the measures were questionnaires about the extent to which women's expectations were or were not met in their current heterosexual relationships and if symptoms of depression were experienced. The women in this study generally reported, like Western women, that their relationships met their expectations (whatever those expectations may have been), that they contributed more positive than negative behaviors to the relationship, and that they experienced mostly mild or infrequent depressive symptoms. Unlike findings for Western samples, however, neither relationship duration, women's level of education, nor the extent to which they reported depressive symptoms covaried with whether they reported that their expectations were met or not. In summary, this study did not shed light on possible sources of Afro-Caribbean women's relationship satisfaction, although it potentially ruled out a few.