SYLVIA HALL
RESEARCH INTEREST
I am Currently enrolled in the
MPhil/PhD Cultural Studies Programme at the University of the West
Indies. My focus area is Female Sexuality. Research Topic: Everyday
Meanings, Myths and Taboos and the Female Body: A Grounded Theory
Exploration of Female Sexuality in the Jamaican Experience.
Objectives: The study has two broad
objectives. Firstly it seeks to explore and present a reading of the
everyday social meanings, perceptions, myths and taboos associated
with female sexuality? private and public? within a contradictory
moral and political battle space in the contemporary Jamaican
experience. Secondly the study aims at developing substantive mid
range theories `grounded' in the data collected, that will provide a
framework for critically assessing the phenomenon, female sexuality,
and provide a basis for considering how what is unknown about female
sexuality in the Jamaican society might be organized.
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