- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 We Don’t Have Enough Water to Make Tears
- 2 What We Have, We Share
- 3 Pearl of the Antilles
- 4 Maroon Man
- 5 We Will Carry You On
- 6 You Can’t Eat Okra with One Finger
- 7 Fragile as a Crystal
- 8 Children of the Land
- 9 Grains and Guns
- 10 The Ones Who Must Decide
- 11 Our Bodies Are Shaking Now
- 12 The Creole Connection
- 13 We’ve Lost the Battle, but We Haven’t Lost the War
- 14 Social Fault Lines
- 15 Monsanto Seeds, Miami Rice
- 16 Home
- 17 For Want of Twenty Cents
- 18 The Super Bowl of Disasters
- 19 The Commonplace amid the Catastrophic
- 20 Beyond Medical Care
- 21 Hold Strong
- 22 Mrs. Clinton Will Never See Me Working There
- 23 The Central Pillar
- 24 Elections
- 25 We Will Never Fall Asleep Forgetting
- Epilogue
- Index
We Will Carry You On
We Will Carry You On
The Women’s Movement
- Chapter:
- (p.41) 5 We Will Carry You On
- Source:
- Fault Lines
- Author(s):
Beverly Bell
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
This chapter traces the history of women's movements in Haiti. It begins by telling the story of Magalie Marcelin, who began her activism as a teenager under Jean-Claude Duvalier and went on to launch the Women's House (Kay Fanm). Magalie played a major role in getting laws passed for women's equal rights in marriage and for the criminalization of rape and domestic violence. The chapter considers how advocacy for women's rights evolved in Haiti and links the birth of a contemporary women's movement to the political opening that accompanied Duvalier's ouster in 1986. It concludes with a statement made by Yolette Jeanty, who had replaced Magalie as director of the Women's House, on International Women's Day 2010: “Magalie is not here and she is here. We are her feet. We are her words. We are her heart. We are her path. Magalie, we will carry you on.”
Keywords: women's movements, Haiti, Magalie Marcelin, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Women's House, women's rights, Yolette Jeanty, International Women's Day
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- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 We Don’t Have Enough Water to Make Tears
- 2 What We Have, We Share
- 3 Pearl of the Antilles
- 4 Maroon Man
- 5 We Will Carry You On
- 6 You Can’t Eat Okra with One Finger
- 7 Fragile as a Crystal
- 8 Children of the Land
- 9 Grains and Guns
- 10 The Ones Who Must Decide
- 11 Our Bodies Are Shaking Now
- 12 The Creole Connection
- 13 We’ve Lost the Battle, but We Haven’t Lost the War
- 14 Social Fault Lines
- 15 Monsanto Seeds, Miami Rice
- 16 Home
- 17 For Want of Twenty Cents
- 18 The Super Bowl of Disasters
- 19 The Commonplace amid the Catastrophic
- 20 Beyond Medical Care
- 21 Hold Strong
- 22 Mrs. Clinton Will Never See Me Working There
- 23 The Central Pillar
- 24 Elections
- 25 We Will Never Fall Asleep Forgetting
- Epilogue
- Index
