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Skirts Rolled Up: The Gendered Terrain of Politics in Nineteenth-Century Port-au-Prince

Eller, Anne
2021

dans
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
25
1 (64)
61-83
ISSN
1534-6714
Mots-clés
colonialisme/histoire
droits des femmes
violences
politique/gouvernement
Résumé
Résumé :

This essay considers the participation of Port-au-Prince women in municipal and national politics during the later decades of the nineteenth century. The growth of Port-au-Prince changed the dynamics of these contests, as newly arrived women joined expanding popular neighborhoods, and many assumed a central role in feeding the city. Women moved freely through the heart of the capital and the immediate countryside on personal, commercial, and sometimes directly political itineraries. While formally excluded from electoral politics, working women made their political desires well known, as they exerted an influence on the military movements that toppled the administration several times. These armed contests, as well as the stratification and militarization of the political scene during peacetime, provoked gendered violence. Simultaneously, working women confronted disdain from journalists who would discipline the women's great influence. Nevertheless, these women commanded considerable respect in political contests that often seemed to have as their stakes the very independence of the nation itself.

Copyright 2021, Small Axe, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Duke University Press. www.dukeupress.edu

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http://muse.jhu.edu/article/791999

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