1938: (How Women Count — Comhaire-Sylvain Not Mentioning Adelsia’s Facility with Calculations as Mere Accolades but as an Invitation to Think About How Women…

1938: (How Women Count — Comhaire-Sylvain Not Mentioning Adelsia’s Facility with Calculations as Mere Accolades but as an Invitation to Think About How Women Count Both as Valuable Members of the Nation and Considering Their Systems of Measuring with Varying-Sized Pots Touch and Smell Among Vendors and Market Women — In La Voix des Femmes Arguing That Women and Their Metric Systems Mattered): As Comhaire-Sylvain argued in her later publications, she does not mention Adelsia’s facility with calculations as mere accolades, but as an invitation to think about how women count — both as valuable members of the nation and considering their systems of measuring (varying-sized pots, touch, and smell among vendors and market women) and their value as members in the society. In the pages of La Voix des Femmes, Comhaire-Sylvain argued that women and their metric systems mattered — the pot that a market woman used to measure rice was as much an instrument of knowledge as the calipers in a laboratory.