1940s: (Women’s Social and Political Experience as “an Alterable Terrain” — Together the Family Correspondences Research and the Foyer Demonstrating That Wom…

1940s: (Women’s Social and Political Experience as “an Alterable Terrain” — Together the Family Correspondences Research and the Foyer Demonstrating That Women’s Social and Political Experience Was “an Alterable Terrain,” Comhaire-Sylvain’s Research Alongside the Foyer Attempting to Make Visible New or Unacknowledged Strategies of Social Struggle Because the LFAS Women’s Action Communicated That They Knew What Katherine McKittrick Has Argued: “We Produce Space”): Together, the family correspondences, research, and the Foyer demonstrated that women’s social and political experience was an alterable terrain. Comhaire-Sylvain’s analysis of space was evolving in the 1940s, but her research alongside the Foyer attempted to make visible new, or unacknowledged, strategies of social struggle because the LFAS women’s action communicated that they knew what Katherine McKittrick has argued: we produce space. It is not surprising, then, that while reflecting on the uprooted environment of SHADA, Jeanne Sylvain wanted to plant something, alter the space — the Foyer was the seed she planted in the cleared ground, the feminist response to deforestation.