Ce document remet en cause le pouvoir dans son sens politique et rejette son fondement patriarcal de façon à refuser la continuité des souffrances créées socialement pour les femmes.

Ce document est le fruit d'une étude de systématisation menée par la Coordination nationale de plaidoyer pour les droits des femmes (CONAP) et appuyée par l'organisation canadienne Droits et Démocratie dans le cadre d'un partenariat qui s'inscrit dans le programme de Renforcement de la participation de la société civile haïtienne dans la transition à la démocratie. Au départ, le but de cette étude visait à sys- tématiser le travail de la CONAP.

This article studies the role of white, black and mulatto women during the last two years of the Haitian War of Independence, also known as the Haitian Revolution (1802-04). It might be expected that women's contribution was limited in wartime, but this article concludes otherwise. Desirable women were sought as prizes symbolic of a man's status in colonial society, or actively used their appeal to obtain political favours. Women of colour contributed to the rebellion in the fields of logistics, espionage and even combat.

Cette revue a pour objectif de permettre aux historiens de construire une mémoire universelle et scientifique, tout en contribuant à la prise de conscience des héritages que l’histoire de l’esclavage et de la colonisation nous a légués. Tout en illustrant que l’esclavage est une histoire universelle, cette édition se consacre au sort des femmes et dénonce la méconnaissance de l’esclavage des femmes.

Sovereignty. Sugar. Revolution. These are the three axes this book uses to link the works of contemporary women artists from Haiti—a country excluded in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literary studies—the Dominican Republic, and Cuba. In From Sugar to Revolution: Women’s Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, Myriam Chancy aims to show that Haiti’s exclusion is grounded in its historical role as a site of ontological defiance.

This paper explores the possible existence of organic reproductive justice actions among enslaved mothers and pregnant women in colonial Haiti (Saint Domingue) with specific focus on how marronnage – escape from slavery – provided them opportunities to exert power over their lives, bodies and biological reproduction. Reproductive justice is defined as the complete well‐being of women and girls, based on their human right to decide when and how to have – or not have – children, and to parent existing children in safe and sustainable communities.

Gender is deemed a social construct and is commonly overlooked in economic conversations (Padgett and Warnecke 2011). However, there are critical intersections between gender and economic maturation. Additionally, gender relations in Haiti demote women to the positionality of the “most marginalized” in the country with the fewest liberties yet the greatest socio-economic responsibilities. Thus, rural women are disproportionately affected by most disparities, inclusive of the economic implications in Haiti.

This project is a critical examination of Haitian migration and displacement in North America that engages both a theoretical and literary analysis of exile and diaspora as consequences of migration and displacement. Grounded in literary criticism, this dissertation argues that Haitian writers in North America inscribe migration by troping exile and diaspora to speak of the predicament of displaced migratory subjects and their inevitable crossings of places, landscapes, borders, cultures, and nations.

Ce texte propose une réflexion sur les luttes pour l’égalité des femmes en Haïti. Pour cela, l’auteur fait appel à certaines définitions connues de mouvements féministes, aux mouvements existants, ainsi qu’aux actions menées depuis 1804. La participation féminine aux luttes a permis de réaliser plusieurs gains et de placer la condition féminine dans les priorités du pays.

Understanding exile as flight from political persecution or forms of oppression that single out women, Myriam J. A. Chancy concentrates on diasporic writers and filmmakers who depict the vulnerability of women to poverty and exploitation in their homelands and their search for safe refuge. These Afro-Caribbean feminists probe the complex issues of race, nationality, gender, sexuality, and class that limit women’s lives.