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1999, was organized by a consortium of "gender transgressive" groups
in Santo Domingo, including an AIDS prevention NGO where the au-
thor works. He explains that his own positioning as an outsider to
Dominican culture, offered him (and his group) protection from police
harassment due to his being perceived as a tourist. This along with the
proliferation of rainbow flags points to what Padilla considers the pos-
sibilities of a growing transnational gay culture in combatting local
prejudice and repression.
 The three articles that deal with the Anglophone Caribbean region,
drawing on cultures of Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia and
Jamaica, are all concerned primarily with methodological issues. In
the first of these, "Refining Gender Methodology: Studying Masculinity
through Popular Song Lyrics," Patricia Mohammed finds calypso lyr-
ics an important source for analyzing popular male conceptions of
heterosexuality, and male/female relations in relation to notions of ro-
mantic love. Though providing many samples of lyrics, the analysis is
minimal -meaning at many times is assumed to be transparent-and
no connections are made to the socio-political milieu in which they
were written and or performed. In many ways Rhoda Reddock's ar-
ticle, "'Man Gone, Man Stay!': Masculinity, Ethnicity and Identity in the
Contemporary Sociopolitical Context of Trinidad and Tobago" responds
to this by focusing on the way in which Afro-Trindiadian men and Indo-
Trinidadian men have struggled for political power since the end of
British rule. Reddock also shows how the calypso forum is primarily
one for the Afro-Trinidadian male view while newspaper journalism is
the space where Indo-Trinidadian men speak to and often for their
community's interests. In this way, Reddock shows how women have
been left out of discussions of the nation and power, though this has
begun to change. "Field Notes on Masculinity Research in the Carib-
bean" by Linden Lewis is focused on the problems of doing ethno-
graphic research in the prisons of Grenada, Jamaica and Trinidad since
there are no established procedures for such work. Though he shows
how the focus group method is excellent for gathering data in these
contexts, researchers must work around the presence of prison offi-
cials at such meetings, which often results in overdetermined opin-
ions of homosexuality which is considered a taboo topic.
 From the work presented in this collection a discernable gap can be
seen between scholarship on sexuality/gender systems in the
Anglophone Caribbean cultures and those in the Hispanophone area.
This seems in part due to the Spanish islands' inclusion in a wider and
more varied tradition of intellectual inquiry, one which has grown ex-