ABSTRACT
Research on Caribbean and Black diasporas tends to focus on men’s experiences, but tell us little about masculinities, gender relations, or women.1 Transnational feminist theory draws our attention to the complexity of women’s plurilocal experiences of ‘home’, at once places of leisure and comfort, and places of labour and oppression. For a fuller picture of the Caribbean diaspora, we must consider men’s and women’s relational gender performances. Women help to maintain men’s fantasies of home, social networks, practices of consumption, transnational families and gendered identities. Men’s positioning among each other depends on their power displays in competitive gendered relations, often expressed through actions and words directed towards women.
