This article proposes a study of the representation of women in three of Maryse Condé's novels for young people: Rêves amers (reprint of Haïti chérie), Savannah Blues and La Belle et la Bête, a Guadeloupean version. In these fictions, Maryse Condé challenges gender stereotypes, particularly around motherhood and the figure of the potomitan or West Indian mother-courage. She also questions sexist and racist prejudices inherited from colonialism and slavery, such as the imagery of the "mulatto", the beautiful mixed-race woman of the islands.