1937-04: (Comhaire-Sylvain Returns from Europe — After Returning to Haiti from Studying in Europe an Ad in La Voix des Femmes in April 1937 Reading “She Is O…

1937-04: (Comhaire-Sylvain Returns from Europe — After Returning to Haiti from Studying in Europe an Ad in La Voix des Femmes in April 1937 Reading “She Is Our One Distinguished and Eminent Doctor of Letters PhD Who in Her Thesis Illustrates the Brilliant Intellectual Capacity of Men and Women . . . LFAS Expresses the Hope That Mme. Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain Becomes the Pivot Point Around Which Haitian Feminism Will Definitely Evolve”): In April 1937, after Comhaire-Sylvain returned to Haiti from studying in Europe, an ad in La Voix des Femmes read: she is our one distinguished and eminent doctor of letters who, in her thesis, illustrates the brilliant intellectual capacity of men and women — the LFAS expressed the hope that Mme. Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain would become the pivot point around which Haitian feminism would definitely evolve. The organization was publicly staking its intellectual direction on a single scholar’s methodology — a remarkable bet that feminist practice could be grounded in ethnographic rigor.