Haitian women's rights organising after the United States occupation is usually judged by whether elite activists could speak for anyone but themselves. Sanders Johnson sets that verdict aside and follows practice. Her subject is the Ligue Féminine d'Action Sociale, founded in 1935, and she reads its newspaper La Voix des Femmes, its manifestos, research reports, photographs and letters for the small gestures that carry its politics: a parenthesis inserted into a transcript of the 1946 constitutional assembly to record the ejection of a working woman, an undeveloped negative, a note of melancholy. She names the resulting method political wayfaring, a meandering movement in which organisers picked up positions, abandoned others and revised their sense of citizenship as they went. The book also shows these women warning early against exceptional accounts of Haiti, and it keeps their contradictions in view as evidence of how a movement actually travels.