1937: (The Limits of Universalizing Rhetoric — Most Women’s Extreme Material Dispossession Being More Extreme Than Any “Moral Misery” and LFAS Leaders Someti…

1937: (The Limits of Universalizing Rhetoric — Most Women’s Extreme Material Dispossession Being More Extreme Than Any “Moral Misery” and LFAS Leaders Sometimes Struggling to Recognize Their Own Privileges as They Sought to Identify and Fight Against Gender Oppression — While the Patriotic Rhetoric Was Used as a Tool of Unifying Propaganda Perez Tempered the Nostalgia Reminding Women “We Must Always Look Straight Ahead and Only Occasionally Turn Our Thinking to the Past to Draw Comfort from the Memory of the Great Forefathers and Mothers,” the LFAS Using the Newspaper as a Forward-Focused Compass): Most women’s extreme material dispossession was more extreme than any moral misery, and LFAS leaders sometimes struggled to recognize their own privileges as they sought to identify and fight against gender oppression. While the patriotic rhetoric was used as a tool of unifying propaganda, Jeanne Perez also tempered the nostalgia, reminding women that they must always look straight ahead, and only occasionally turn their thinking to the past to draw comfort from the memory of the great forefathers and mothers. To this end, the LFAS used the newspaper as a forward-focused compass — the revolutionary past was a wellspring of inspiration but not a destination, and the women who invoked Dessalines and Marie-Jeanne were charged with building something new rather than merely commemorating what had been.