Feminism in Haiti

Individual Feminists:

Josette Perard

Internet Links:

The Women and Gender in Latin America: Anthropology / Economics / Sociology webpage at the Univ. of California, Berkeley, has an extensive bibliography of Caribbean resources here.

You can contact the Network Women's Program --Foundation Connaissance et Liberte through Michele D. Pierre-Louis here, or write to them at this postal address: Fondation Connaissance et Liberte, 19 Avenue Magny, Port-au-Prince, HAITI. This program is carried out through an NGO called ENFOFANM. They can be reached through Daniele Magloire here.

Bibliography

Chancy, Myriam J.A. "Nou la!: Haitian Feminism as the Crossroads Politics of Theory and Action" Chapter 1, pp.24-45 in Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1997.

Charles, Carolle. "Gender and Politics in Contemporary Haiti: The Duvalierist State, Transnationalism and the Emergence of a New Feminism (1980-1990)" Feminist Studies Vol. 21 (1).

Danticat, Edwige. Krik? Krak! Random House, 1996.

Toussaint, Rose-Marie. Never Question the Miracle: A Surgeon's Story. One World, 1998.