Quoique les femmes aient joué un rôle important dans les processus de migration et insertion dans la nouvelle société, ce rôle-là n'a pas été toujours reconnu ni étudié en profondeur. Cet article examine le cas de Haïtiennes: leur rôle dans le processus d'immigration, leur intégration au marché du travail ainsi que les changements dans les modèles domestiques et sociaux qui s'observent dans la communauté Haïtienne à New York.

Objective: To examine the association between violence experienced by pregnant Haitian women in the previous 6 months and pregnancy-related symptom distress. Methods: A total of 200 women seeking prenatal care at community health dispensaries in the Artibonite Valley were interviewed. Results: Over 4 in 10 women (44.0%) reported that they had experienced violence in the 6 months prior to interview; 77.8% of these women reported that the violence was perpetrated by an intimate partner.

Haitian women are twice as likely as men to have HIV/AIDs. Factors underlying the feminization of HIV are complex. Self-esteem is an important correlate of sexual behavior. However, its meaning and impact on health behaviors may be influenced by cultural factors. This qualitative study took place in Haiti 4 months after the 2010 earthquake and examines the meaning of self-esteem among young Haitian women seeking treatment for a recurrent sexually transmitted infection (STI).

An analysis of the historical records of the Haitian Etat Civil, shows how rural Haitian women strategically presented themselves within Haitian law and bureaucracy in order to access legal personhood, citizenship and property ownership both for themselves and their families. Based on new archival research, the article further extends our knowledge of rural Haitian society in the nineteenth century, locating Haiti within the context of the historiography of the Caribbean in the post-slavery period.

On January 12, 2010, an earthquake in Haiti sent shockwaves across the world, triggering an unprecedented international response. In the months that followed, international news, legal, development, human rights, and solidarity agencies highlighted the issue of gender-based violence, which has by all accounts increased since the earthquake. Despite activists' nuanced understanding and efforts, official responses have been inadequate while reproducing troubling, albeit familiar, discourses that tend to trigger either denial or demonization.

La Maison Heinrich Heine a consacré le 15 octobre 2014 une soirée à Trois femmes d’Haïti, le dernier cycle de nouvelles d’Anna Seghers, jusqu’alors inédit en France, qui vient de paraître dans la traduction de Bruno Meur aux éditions Le temps des cerises. Au cours de la soirée sont intervenus Hélène Roussel pour présenter ce cycle ainsi qu’un extrait de chaque nouvelle, lu par la comédienne Françoise Lepoix.

This essay explores the ways in which women’s advocacy for sexual freedom leads to the reformulation of national identities such as sexualities and gender. The author analyzes the ways in which restrictions against homosexuality, especially the discursive erasure and denial of lesbian existence, suggest that sexuality may be a crucial avenue for social and political transformation.

This article examines post-earthquake conditions in Haiti, which have left women and girls in a heightened state of vulnerability, as well as the ineffectiveness of the U.N. and government to uphold obligations under international law to include grassroots women’s leadership in the planning and implementation sessions to address sexual violence in displacement camps. It provides a brief overview of pre- and post-earthquake responses to sexual violence in Haiti, and then an overview of sexual violence and the vulnerability of women and girls since the earthquake.

This chapter explores the Caribbean ethnography Tell My Horse (1938) by Zora Neale Hurston and how she challenged and shaped the field of anthropology and ethnography in North America. The author states that Hurston being a black woman in the Caribbean diaspora is what led to her semi-disappearance and fall into poverty.

This essay examines the marketplace of female sexuality in the Caribbean. Duvivier analyses issues of class, race and gender to paint a better understanding of the sexual economy that aids in boosting the tourism industries in various Caribbean countries. The Black female body in Guitele Jeudy Rahill’s novella Violated (2001) and Rick Elgood and Don Letts’ film Dancehall Queen (1997) is symbolizing the potential for basic survival, financial security and socioeconomic advancement for the girls/women in question and their families.