Women's Movement, H aiti

Abstract

Haitian women have used protests and activism to negotiate their compromised positions in the national citizenry. Their protests reflect the nuanced and multiple social locations of women in Haiti and have varied from infanticide and marron‐age in the eighteenth century, to guerrilla warfare, public demonstrations, and political organization in the nineteenth century, to a “literature of revolution,” and the development of individual, national, and transnational feminist discourses by the twentieth and twenty‐first centuries.