Introduction -- Chapter One. Rites of passage -- A bridge -- Chapter Two. Publishing rights -- A pilgrimage -- Chapter Three. The right sex: political geographies of Haitian womanhood -- Chapter Four. Stage right: Pan-American pageantry, diasporic performance, and feminist play -- A feeling -- Chapter Five. The right candidate: gender, race, and political violence -- Conclusion: Filling the bottom right cabinet -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography-- Index
Summary
"This transnational history of gender and radical politics during and after the US occupation of Haiti follows a cohort of Haitian women from Haiti through the Caribbean to the United States, Canada, and the Belgian Congo. Grace Sanders Johnson uses this group of women to explore how gender, national, and racial identities were forged among elite and middle class women"-- Provided by publisher