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.

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Déployant une approche féministe intersectionnelle et institutionnaliste, cet article documente et analyse la constitution récente de mobilisations intersectionnelles de femmes handicapées en Haïti, c’est-à-dire de mobilisations qui viennent politiser des expériences vécues façonnées à la fois par le genre et le capacitisme comme systèmes imbriqués de la domination sociale.

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.

This article examines both the national context and the development of Haitian women’s organizations and struggles in the diaspora over the last forty years. It looks at their interconnectedness and their relations to structures of power at the level of the state and civil society. Three main sources of data inform the argument: secondary ethnographic and sociohistorical analyses, participant observation in Haiti and Haitian communities in North America, as well as informal group and individual interviews with Haitian women.

This chapter of Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography briefly covers the life of Myriam Merlet describing her academic career in Canada and Haiti during the years she lived under the Duvalier regime. It describes her research on the living conditions of Haitian women, highlighting her academic and activist accomplishments as well as the various feminist groups and people she collaborated with in her research and collective actions. (Summary by Mouka)

In this chapter of Higasida’s book, the author discusses Terry McMillan’s How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1996), a novel that shares themes of female rejuvenation with Rosa Guy’s novel The Sun, the Sea, a Touch of Wind (1995). The plot and different themes in the novel are explored against the political and social Haitian background and the centrality of American imperialism.

La Voix des Femmes: Haitian Women’s Rights, National Politics, and Black Activism in Port-au-Prince and Montréal, 1934-1986 is a response to the haunting absence of scholarly attention to Haitian women in Caribbean and North American political history in the twentieth century. I consider the ways in which elite and middle-class Haitian women’s concepts and practices of activism and feminism both emerged from and influenced debates on race, nationalism, and international politics among black activists in Haiti and North America during the U.S.

My dissertation titled "Mambos, Priestesses, and Goddesses: Spiritual Healing Through Vodou in Black Women's Narratives of Haiti and New Orleans" reclaims the practice of Vodou as an integral African spiritual tradition through fiction by black women writers. I discuss how the examination of Vodou necessitates the revision of colonial history, serves as an impetus for reevaluating the literary representation of the black female migrant subject, and gives voice to communities silenced by systemic oppression.

The emergence of the women's movement in the 1960, the adoption by the United Nation of the Decade for Women (1975-85) prompted the development of research on gender issues. Action research is a methodology that puts women at the center of the analysis. This paper identifies the emergence of action research in the Caribbean. It argues that in the case of Haiti gender and feminist action research has not fully developed. In fact, gender issues is still not a field of inquiry.