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    1. After the earthquake: gender inequality and transformation in post-disaster Haiti

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Horton,Lynn (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2012-07
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Gender & Development
    Journal Title Details:
    20(2) : 295-308
    Notes:
    Argues that patterns of gender exclusion occur on multiple levels from the transnational to the local, and identifies gender-specific obstacles in the recovery and reconstruction period. In Haiti, these include meeting family survival needs, violence and exploitation, and class and racially based stigmatization.

    2. Rising From the Dust of GOUDOUGOUDOU

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Ulysse,Gina Athena (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Winter2011
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Ms.
    Journal Title Details:
    21(1) : 36-39
    Notes:
    Discusses the status of women in Haiti in terms of accessing basic needs and services and education. States that women's invisibility was overshadowed by&nbsp;global media's coverage of&nbsp; the 2010 earthquake, wherein people were exposed to extreme poverty and gender inequity. It adds that Commission of Women Victims for Victims (KOFAVIV) is one of the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that helped women victims from the prosecution of assailants.

    3. The discourse of romantic love on the Miskito Coast

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hobson Herlihy,Laura (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2013-06
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity
    Journal Title Details:
    27(2) : 76-85
    Notes:
    Examines the sentiment of love among the indigenous Miskitu people along the Honduran and Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast. The Miskitu are a Native American&nbsp;ethnic group in&nbsp; Central America.&nbsp; The people are primarily of African Native American ancestry.&nbsp; Miskitu women historically have held high positions of power in their matrilocal society. Since the lobster-diving industry began in the 1970s, however, gender and power relations have shifted, rendering women more dependent on men who earn wages. Women's loss of power is not only due to the economic changes, but it is also caused by the ideology and discourse of romantic love in Miskitu society.