Ce mémoire explore le mouvement féministe haïtien en analysant le militantisme féministe en Haïti dans son actualité et dans son contexte ainsi que ses formes d’organisation et d’expression. L’auteur s’intéresse à l’émergence et à l’histoire du féminisme en Haïti en présentant, d’une part, la vie quotidienne de femmes haïtiennes ainsi qu’en s’interrogant sur le processus de politisation. D’autre part, il s’interroge sur les revendications se rapportant à l’émancipation des femmes en Haïti.

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This article analyses feminism in the Dominican Republic, and the rightward shift of the women's movement in the 1930s and 1940s, by examining the historical development of female activism in the Dominican Republic from the 1880s until the first decade of General Rafael Trujillo's regime in the 1940s.

Over sixty years after the introduction of women’s suffrage and nearly forty years after the uneven institutionalization of representative democracy, the majority of Haitian women face mounting challenges to maintaining their livelihoods and playing more prominent roles in politics. This dissertation advances an understanding of poor urban women’s collective potential and the challenges to their self-making as agents of change.

Le viol est un outil de guerre. Haïti est l’un des nombreux pays qui utilisent la violence, et particulièrement cette forme-là, contre les femmes comme moyen de réprimer le révolutionnaire et le progrès. Cependant, la dynamique de la violence armée en Haïti est très différente de celle d’autre pays. Cet article explore le lien entre le patrimoine historique et l’échec politique, ainsi que les liens entre la rareté matérielle, la terreur guerrière et les violences sexuelles. (Résumé par Mouka)

Different frameworks for building capabilities result in different material outcomes for women in four Haitian community-based organizations: two mixed-gender versus two women’s organizations. This study shows that frameworks deployed by the women’s organizations pay attention to gendered strategic interests by enhancing capabilities and functionings that communities and individuals value. Their frameworks resembled Nussbaum’s (2011, Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach.

Although Haitian women have been systematically excluded from social and historical discourse even as they actively engage in the fight for change, EdwidgeDanticat proves through her characters that revolutionaries come in many forms. Breath, Eyes, Memory rewrites the myths embedded in the country’s historical narratives so that Haitian women are unsilenced.

Several prominent contemporary Francophone women writers have embraced activism in compelling forms. In her written creations, Maïssa Bey from Algeria has continually called attention to the lack of women's rights in her homeland; she has also initiated writing workshops for women to reflect and express themselves. Fatou Diome, who left Senegal for Strasbourg, has shed light in her work on racism and sexism that African immigrants often face in Europe, and she has created an association in her homeland to help individuals become financially solvent.

Haitian women constitute a group that is lauded within Haiti as the “pillar of society” and yet is also often silenced both within Haiti and abroad. Given the role of the media in shaping attitudes and behaviors toward Women of Color, evaluation of media portrayals is critical to challenge oppressive discourses about these groups. Therefore, in this study, the authors conducted a thematic analysis of 650 photographs of Haitian women in the Associated Press Photo Archive in the years 1994–2009.

In this paper Marie-Jose N'zengou-Tayo draws on a variety of sources, both historical and contemporary, to describe the journey of Haitian women from nineteenth-century post-War of Independence, to present-day Haitian society.