Consuelo Lopez Springfield

This is not a good introduction into Caribbean studies. If I read this as part of a class, or after studying the region, I'm sure I'd find the insights invaluable. As it was, I felt adrift in a sea of academic ramblings.

My favorite essay was Elisa J Sobo's "Menstrual Taboos, Witchcraft Babies, and Social Relations." She writes about rumors and folklore in rural Jamaica: "tying"--in which a woman feeds an unsuspecting man her menstrual blood in his food, and thus he is enthralled to her; if a man doesn't have sex often enough, his semen builds up in his lower back and can cripple him; in lesbian sex, the "male" female "stretched her external genitalia into an insertable pseudo-penis with the aid of an oil made for this purpose." I really wish I knew how much of her scholarship I can trust.… (plus d'informations)