In this PhD. thesis, De Hoog extensively documents the Restavèk system in Haiti. She analyses the complex web of local gender dynamics within the global system of patriarchy, which, in the context of a violent post-colonial society, has had a significant impact on children’s safety. This thesis highlights the crucial part of women in this practice and the significance in the fact that the slaveholders of restavèk children are, for the large part, women.
The Complicity of Women in Child Slavery: A Gender Analysis of Haiti and the Restavèk System
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