Yuh a Move Different Eno!

In Jamaican culture, the rules of gender and power in relationships are everywhere and nowhere at once — in the music, in the yard, in the church, in the bedroom, and in the silence between what is said and what is meant. Jamaican men and women have recently undergone radical shifts in gender roles and conduct. The result is that many Jamaican men believe Jamaican women have changed for the worst, while many Jamaican women feel the same about Jamaican men. Drawing on his clinical training, anthropological techniques, and thousands of real relationship ‘mixup’ stories from his radio years, Dr. Ragashanti traces these dynamics, names their consequences, and opens a conversation about what explains the gender role shifts in Jamaican relationships and what will be the eventual outcomes of the present trajectories..