This article proposes a study of the representation of women in three of Maryse Condé's novels for young people: Rêves amers (reprint of Haïti chérie), Savannah Blues and La Belle et la Bête, a Guadeloupean version. In these fictions, Maryse Condé challenges gender stereotypes, particularly around motherhood and the figure of the potomitan or West Indian mother-courage. She also questions sexist and racist prejudices inherited from colonialism and slavery, such as the imagery of the "mulatto", thebeautiful mixed-race woman of the islands. Through the analysis of characters common to her novels for children and adults (Ségou and Desirada), the study shows that Maryse Condé's children's literature seems a priori to seek to water down or pass under silence certain sexual violence. But this apparent self-censorship should not obscure the bold critique and questioning of the intersectionality of race, class, and gender dominance in her novels for young readers.