Domestic violence, interpersonal violence, intimate partner violence, or gender-based violence continues to be a social problem that is rarely understood or discussed in many parts of society, worldwide. The same holds true in the Anglophone Caribbean. Most Caribbean societies are patriarchal in nature, as most men govern and create the political and economic landscape where citizens live. This edited volume brings together reputable scholars of rigorous academic research from various disciplines (e.g., political science, law, linguistics, criminology, nursing, social work and psychology) to clearly explain the conceptual definition of domestic violence within the Latin American and Caribbean region¿s socio-political context. It will highlight who are the perpetrators as well as the victims of domestic violence and the consequences of allowing domestic violence to perpetuate in the region. This book is unique in the market today, as it is the only book grounded in the Caribbean providing a comprehensive overview of domestic violence with regards to the significance, victims, perpetrators, and the consequences.

Ann Marie Bissessar is Professor of Political Science at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago.

Camille Huggins is Lecturer at the Social Work Department at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Domestic violence in the Caribbean - Are our solutions effective?.- Chapter 3: Symbolic violence in the Postcolonial Anglo-Caribbean.- Chapter 4: Exploring Domestic Violence Issues and Resolutions through Epic Theatre and Forum Theatre: The Good, the Baddesse and the Ugly.- Chapter 5: Phenomenology as Methodology for Narrating Gender Perceptions on 'Linguistic Violence'.- Chapter 6: Literature as an Agent of Change.- Chapter 7: Trinidad and Tobago's Legal Response to Domestic Violence-Incomplete and Inadequate without a Focus on Achieving Substantive Equality.- Chapter 8: Historicizing Domestic Violence: The Ills of Indenture ship?.- Chapter 9: The personal is political: domestic violence and feminist participation in Bolivarian Venezuela.- Chapter 10: Literary Evocations of Violence (Psychic and Physical) in Selected Works by Indo-Trinidadian Women Writers.- Chapter 11: Understanding Domestic Violence from the perspective of Trinidadian Men.- Chapter 12: Psychological reasons women stay in abusive relationships: Case studies in Trinidad and Tobago.- Chapter 13: The Women in Seafood Landscape: A Look at the Social and Economic Challenges of Gender Based Violence.- Chapter 14: Surviving Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence.- Chapter 15: Deepening the dialogue - Strengthening domestic violence policy and charting a way forward.- Chapter 16: Accounting for Episodes of Domestic Violence in the Anglophone Caribbean: Novel Achievements in the Midst of Persistent Challenges.- Chapter 17: Through the eyes of the perpetrator: the historical and contemporary cultural context of intimate partner violence in the Caribbean.- Index.