1934–1946: (Continuities Beneath Regime Changes — The Haitian Women’s Movement as a Continuity That Persisted Across Changes of Regime, the Recycling and Rec…

1934–1946: (Continuities Beneath Regime Changes — The Haitian Women’s Movement as a Continuity That Persisted Across Changes of Regime, the Recycling and Recrafting of Physical Psychological and Sexual Violence Against Women as Another Continuity, the Surge in Sexual Violence Against Women After They Won Suffrage Rights and Voted for the First Time Being the Most Obvious Example That the Movement’s Praxis Was Not Always Linear or Marked by Incremental Progress, Thinking with Trouillot’s Warning That Haitian and Foreign Observers Tend to Inflate the Role of Politics and See Historical Evolution in Terms of Changes of Regime to a Degree That Masks Underlying Continuities): Sanders Johnson thinks with Trouillot’s assertion that Haitian and foreign observers alike have tended to inflate the role of politics in shaping the country’s history, seeing the stages of historical evolution in terms of changes of regime to a degree that masks underlying continuities. One of these continuities is the Haitian women’s movement itself — an organizing practice formulated beyond the politics of the state that reveals continuities despite state changes. But the women’s organizing also revealed darker continuities: the recycling and recrafting of physical, psychological, and sexual violence against women. The most obvious example of the nonlinearity of women’s political progress is the surge in sexual violence against women after they won suffrage rights and voted for the first time. The praxis was not always linear or marked by incremental progress; the 1946 assembly captures the web of bold and subtle cues about women’s political journey that anchor the entire book.