- 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
Our Bodies Are Shaking Now
Our Bodies Are Shaking Now
Violence against Girls and Women
- Chapter:
- (p.93) 11 Our Bodies Are Shaking Now
- Source:
- Fault Lines
- Author(s):
Beverly Bell
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
This chapter examines how social movements have addressed the increase in rape and other forms of violence against girls and women in Haiti after the earthquake. It first considers the work of the Commission of Women Victim to Victim, a group of rape survivors and former child slaves promoting women's and children's rights. It then recounts the story of a four-year-old rape victim, before discussing how women's advocacy has come with a price, or rather many prices, including attacks by perpetrators. It also explores the elusiveness of post-rape health care in Haiti and the factors that account for the decline in the security of girls and women in the country.
Keywords: social movements, rape, violence against girls, violence against women, Haiti, earthquake, Commission of Women Victim to Victim, women's rights, children's rights, health care
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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
