About this Event
Description: This lecture will examine the evolution of masculinity and fatherhood in Guadeloupe based on ethnological research conducted over the past 35 years. Often perceived as absent from parental responsibilities, Black Caribbean men are increasingly striving to take their place within families and assume an educational and emotional role with their children.
In Guadeloupe, however, they inherit a history of slavery, colonization, and French assimilation that has placed the balance of family and society on the shoulders of so-called “potomitan” mothers. The sacrifice of these courageous mothers, with the Code Noir and the Civil Code as horizons, obscures the difficulties men face in navigating their masculinity and fatherhood. Stéphanie Mulot will examine the effects of history, cultural representations, the media, socioeconomic mobility, public policies, and shifting gendernorms on different forms of masculinity.
Speaker: A Professor of Sociology at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès and a specialist in the French Antilles, Stéphanie Mulot specializes in three domains: (a) family relationships (matrifocality, the role of fathers, domestic violence, sexual behaviors); (b) public policies, museum exhibits, and embodied memories of slavery and colonization; and (c) health-related issues inGuadeloupe. She is a member of the Conseil Scientifique de la Fondation pour la Mémoire de
l’Esclavage, the Haut Conseil de Santé Publique en France and the Conseil d’Administration du Parc National de Guadeloupe.
Event venue & nearby stays
La Maison Française NYU, 16 Washington Mews, New York, United States
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