1934-08-01: (The Workshops Conclude as the Occupation Ends — The Monthlong Series Coinciding with the Official End of the US Military Occupation on August 1 …

1934-08-01: (The Workshops Conclude as the Occupation Ends — The Monthlong Series Coinciding with the Official End of the US Military Occupation on August 1 1934, the Common Theme Across Presentations Being Research and Education, If Education Was the Avenue to Equal Citizenship the Paths Among Women Were Not the Same or Equally Accessible — Catholic-Infused Education Was the Most Respected While Industrial Education Could Harness Peasant Women’s Existing Labor but Risked Reifying Gendered Class Divisions, the Ideas Encouraging Women to Consider How to Craft Their Politics and Insert Their Gendered Analysis into Cultural Debates, Garoute and Sylvain’s Choice of Speakers an Intuitive Acknowledgment That They Would Have to Contend with Varying Philosophies — Yet the Workshops Illustrated That Women Could Frame the Parameters of These Debates to Benefit Their Political Agendas): The end of the monthlong series coincided with the official end of the US military occupation on August 1, 1934. The common theme across the presentations was research and education. But if education was the avenue to equal citizenship, the paths to citizenship among women were not the same or equally accessible. Although Price-Mars and Dartigue projected culturally enriched education, in the 1930s European-inspired and Catholic-infused education, as supported by Bellegarde, was the most respected and desired across all classes. Industrial education could harness the physical labor peasant and working-class women were already putting into their land and market businesses, but it was based on the premise that there were students — and elite women were not among this applicant pool. The emphasis on women’s physical labor risked reifying gendered class divisions by further demarcating the labor pool into semiskilled trade and professional workers. The ideas espoused encouraged women to consider how to craft their politics and insert their gendered analysis into cultural debates. Garoute and Sylvain’s choice of speakers was an intuitive acknowledgment that they would contend with varying philosophies for the duration of their political lives — yet the workshops illustrated that women could frame the parameters of these debates to benefit their agendas. As the architect of this forum, the LFAS established a regular home for public dialogue.