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In 2008, a survey was conducted to gauge Barbadian and Jamaican women’s views about the manner in which their sexuality is perceived by Caribbean society. The survey also helped gauge the extent that the lives and sexual identity of black Caribbean women have been influenced by historical sexual stereotypes and to identify alternative images of Caribbean women’s sexualities.
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Marshall, A., Maynard, DM. (2012). Black Female Sexual Identity. In: McGlotten, S., Davis, DA. (eds) Black Genders and Sexualities. The Critical Black Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137077950_13
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