PhD Candidate, Jacqueline Allain, Publishes Article

Graduate student, Jacqueline Allain, recently published an article titled, "‘They are Quiet Women Now’: Hair cropping, British Imperial Governance, and the Gendered Body in the Archive".

Blurb: The punishment of hair-cropping for use on female prisoners was the subject of considerable disagreement in the British Caribbean during the post-emancipation era. The robust debate over hair cropping furnishes a lens through which to analyze competing visions of colonial rule at a moment of British imperial expansion. Moreover, the records of this debate provide critical insight into Caribbean women’s relationships with their bodies and conceptions of gender.