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| author | Alexandra Marie Rosado-Roman |
| title | Sexual Citizenship in the Caribbean 1899-1956: Re-articulating Body Politics for Afro-Puerto Rican Women |
| abstract | This thesis examines the concept of sexual citizenship in three historical and political processes sponsored by the
United States government in Puerto Rico that produced restrictive policies which had a direct impact on the body of the Afro-Puerto Rican women from 1899
to 1956. The historical evidence of colonial activity in Puerto Rico and its more than 500 years of colonial history show that it has been a strategic
territory for imperial and geopolitical purposes. For generations, Puerto Ricans have received the direct impact of the colonial oppression, but it has
been visible, through the discussion of the Afro-Puerto Rican women struggles, how intersections such as race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and
citizenship, function. Nevertheless, from my subjectivity, as a woman who is both, Caribbean and Afro-Puerto Rican and who utilizes a feminist decolonial
approach, I aim to discuss the first approach towards an ethics of wholeness that can allow the Afro-Puerto Rican women to recover the autonomy over their
bodies, and its manifestations of freedom. This ethic of wholeness includes a critical discussion about the sacredness of the Afro-Caribbean, the sacredness
of the Afro-Puerto Rican women's bodies, of which both are strengthened by a non-binary view of the body and their own spirituality, particularly, the
sacredness within the varied manifestations of sexuality. |
| school | The Theological School, Drew University |
| degree | M.A. (2017) |
| advisors | Traci C. West
Elias Ortega-Aponte |
| full text | AMRosado-Roman.pdf |
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