Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Domestic violence in the Caribbean - Are our solutions effective?.- Chapter 3: Symbolic violence in the Postcolonial Anglo-Caribbean.- Chapter 4: Exploring Domestic Violence Issues and Resolutions through Epic Theatre and Forum Theatre: The Good, the Baddesse and the Ugly.- Chapter 5: Phenomenology as Methodology for Narrating Gender Perceptions on 'Linguistic Violence'.- Chapter 6: Literature as an Agent of Change.- Chapter 7: Trinidad and Tobago's Legal Response to Domestic Violence-Incomplete and Inadequate without a Focus on Achieving Substantive Equality.- Chapter 8: Historicizing Domestic Violence: The Ills of Indenture ship?.- Chapter 9: The personal is political: domestic violence and feminist participation in Bolivarian Venezuela.- Chapter 10: Literary Evocations of Violence (Psychic and Physical) in Selected Works by Indo-Trinidadian Women Writers.- Chapter 11: Understanding Domestic Violence from the perspective of Trinidadian Men.- Chapter 12: Psychological reasons women stay in abusive relationships: Case studies in Trinidad and Tobago.- Chapter 13: The Women in Seafood Landscape: A Look at the Social and Economic Challenges of Gender Based Violence.- Chapter 14: Surviving Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence.- Chapter 15: Deepening the dialogue - Strengthening domestic violence policy and charting a way forward.- Chapter 16: Accounting for Episodes of Domestic Violence in the Anglophone Caribbean: Novel Achievements in the Midst of Persistent Challenges.- Chapter 17: Through the eyes of the perpetrator: the historical and contemporary cultural context of intimate partner violence in the Caribbean.- Index.