Bio

Dr. Lazarus is a Sociologist by training, with a specialisation in the areas of Cultures and Identities as well as Feminist Methodologies. She undertakes research, graduate supervision and teaching in related areas. Dr. Lazarus' research projects and publications are in the areas of the Sociology of Religion and Sexuality and Citizenship Studies. Her work critically interrogates notions of sexual and reproductive rights, focusing on how these are translated and/or resisted within the English-speaking Caribbean. In so doing, she examines a range of issues relating to gender, sexuality, culture, tradition, Coloniality and ideas about social progress and development.

Qualifications

PhD, York University, 2013

Teaching Areas

GEND6104 Sexualities, Bodies and Power (Institute for Gender and Development Studies: Nita Barrow Unit)
Research Methods: Philosophical Foundations
Sexual Citizenship and Postcolonial Nationalism

Select Publications

Lazarus, L. (2021). “Studying Religious Mobilizations in the Anglophone Caribbean: A Feminist Critical Reading of Discourse.” In Methodologies in Caribbean Research on Gender & Sexuality, edited by K. Kempadoo and H. A. F. DeShong, 419-448. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers. 

Lazarus, L. (2019 qua 2021) ‘Debating Sex Education: The Politics and Discursive Framing of Comprehensive Sexuality Education in Barbados’, Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies Volume 44, 2 pp. 12-37 (first published and appeared online July 14, 2021).

Lazarus, L. (2018) “Defending the Family, Safeguarding the Nation: An Examination of Evangelical Mobilization in Present-day Barbados”. Culture and Religion 19(4): 394-415. Doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2018.1523801.

Lazarus, L. (2016). "Religion and Rights: Is there Still Room for Christianity at the Table?” Culture and Religion 17(1): 35-55.

Lazarus, L. (2016). “Introduction: Negotiating Religions and Cultural Identities in Caribbean Societies.” Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies 41(1): 1-12.

Lazarus, L. (2015). “Sexual Citizenship and Conservative Christian Mobilisation in Jamaica.” Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies 40(1): 109-140.
 

Additional Info

Dr Lazarus’ main research projects are on Feminism and Faith; and Conservative Christians’ Socio-legal and Discursive Interventions Relating to Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights.

Keywords

Sexuality, gender, sexual and reproductive health rights, conservative Christian mobilization, sexual citizenship.