Publication Year: 2011 / Subject Term: Skin bleaching / Journal Title: Sexuality & Culture

Start Over Publication Year 2011 Subject Term Skin bleaching Journal Title Sexuality & Culture

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Carpenter,Karen (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2011-12
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Sexuality & Culture
Journal Title Details:: 15(4) : 313-314
Notes:: Discusses various reports within the issue on topics including the association of legal reform challenges with public discourse on homosexuality and heteronormativity, sexual expression in the dancing of Caribbean women, skin bleaching for dark-skinned women.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Charles,Christopher (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2011-12
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Sexuality & Culture
Journal Title Details:: 15(4) : 375-390
Notes:: Colorism and skin bleaching is evident in contemporary Jamaica as expressed in some dancehall songs which praise skin bleachers, and the explanatory narratives of skin bleachers that bleaching makes them pretty and sexually attractive to potential spouses. Similar themes are reflected in the criticism that the browning Dancehall Queen Carlene was deemed sexually attractive and choreographically talented only because of her brown physicality. Some spouses request that their partner acquire the bleached physicality because they find it sexually attractive similar to many male clients in 'massage parlors' who only request female sex workers who bleach their skin.

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