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.

Cet article défend l’idée que la recherche féministe en Haïti, loin d’être utopique dans un contexte de grande limitation des ressources, est au contraire indispensable, de même que sa diffusion/vulgarisation. La quête de citoyenneté des femmes est indissoluble des savoirs sur les rapports sociaux de sexe, pour éviter que les interventions – même déclarées en faveur des femmes – ne contribuent au maintien de leur état de subordination. Les finalités de la recherche féministe ont largement été dictées par les besoins du Mouvement dont les chercheuses sont partie prenante.

This study examines the trajectory of rural women’s labor in the wake of post-earthquake land appropriations in Haiti. Drawing on ethnographic field research conducted between 2010 and 2013, it explores gendered access to land in Haiti in both historical and contemporary contexts, paying attention to the nature of rural gender relations and how they influence women’s access to land and their roles in petty commerce. The study describes the stratification of rural market women, their lived experience, and how losing land access will affect their traditional roles as market women.

Studies of sexual and gender minorities in Haiti and globally typically involve HIV research and programming with men who have sex with men. We conducted focus groups with individuals in Haiti’s Cité Soleil slum whose assigned gender at birth matched neither their gender identity nor contextual heteronormative constructions of gender roles, i.e. transwomen and transmen. The Yogyakarta Principles provided the study framework. Focus group participants offered emic perspectives on overall well-being, identities, biopsychosocial strengths and HIV-protective and risk factors.

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This chapter contextualizes the crisis ensuing from the 2010 earthquake by looking at the rhetoric surrounding U.S. aid and intervention in Haiti. It explores what a Marshall Plan for Haiti would look like and whether or not such a plan would require an ideological shift in the ways in which Haiti’s place in history might be reconceived so that such a plan might actually create results that, to date, have escaped the engagement of the international community.

Notre étude constitue un volet, ciblant les nouvelles mères, d’un projet qui vise à implanter un réseau de services communautaires en santé mentale dans la ville de Grand-Gôave en Haïti. Ces services sont dispensés par des aidants naturels sur place, dont le travail est supervisé à distance par des professionnels en santé mentale montréalais.