In Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635–1848, Bernard Moitt argues that gender had a profound effect on the slave plantation system in the French Antilles. He details and analyzes the social condition of enslaved black women in the plantation societies of Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), and French Guiana from 1635 to the abolition of slavery in the French colonial empire in 1848.

This study interrogates the trope of the “tropical temptress” that dominated colonial print culture. Encoded in textual accounts reliant on this trope, it posits, is a subtextual fear of Black female agency. To excavate and rehabilitate the voices of women that have been both occluded and co-opted by the colonialist archive, it recognises a need to look beyond.

This dissertation asks: how does intimate labour interact with the mobility and political subjectivities of Haitian migrant women and women of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic (DR)? It answers this question in three specific ways. First, it explains the relationship between intimate labour and the spatial trajectories of women of Haitian ancestry who work as domestic workers. Second, it examines how the interaction between intimate labour and human mobility plays out in the Dominican border regime.

Le Ministère à la Condition féminine et aux Droits de la Femme dans le cadre de sa politique de promotion de l'équité sociale et d'identification des inégalités d'ordre social, a entrepris une enquête sur la situation des femmes cheffes de ménage dans la Fonction Publique face au projet de loi sur le départ volontaire et la retraite anticipée.

La connaissance de la situation des cheffes de ménages dans la Fonction Publique est un élément essentiel à la formulation de toute politique visant à l'amélioration de leur condition de vie.

This chapter aims to analyse the roots and dynamics of the sexual politics and argues that such a counter-power is part of the strategy of resistance/survival, yet it also embodies empowerment. The material basis of male dominance and of the gender hierarchy generally resides in men’s control over women’s labour. This control is exercised by excluding women from access to essential productive resources and by restricting their sexuality. In Haiti, however, patriarchy as a specific form of the sex/gender system is very complex.

Comment l'État haïtien organise-t-il aujourd'hui la protection et la promotion sociale des enfants et des adolescents? L’objectif central de ce rapport est de répondre à cette question, dans l'espoir que les éléments apportés puissent éclairer sur une autre interrogation: comment la caractérisation des politiques publiques de protection et de promotion sociale ciblées sur les enfants et les adolescents permet-elle de compléter le profil du système haïtien de protection sociale ?

Indoor smoke exposure is responsible for two million deaths per year and has been studied globally, but the impacts of exposure have not yet been evaluated in Haiti, the Western hemisphere's poorest nation. This study measures the disproportionate impact of indoor smoke exposure on the women and children of Haiti. We studied 2296 clinic patients in four Haitian villages to determine the extent of carbon monoxide (CO) exposure, using carboxyhemoglobin saturation in the blood as a proxy for overall smoke exposure.

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