1945: (Lescot Reduces the National Marriage Tax — In 1945 President Élie Lescot Announcing the Reduction of the National Marriage Tax, Popularly Discussed as the Marriage Tax Law the Law…
1945: (Lescot Targets Peasant Polygamy — Lescot Clarifying His Position by Declaring He Had Decided to Combat Polygamy Among the Peasants Which He Said Was the Source of the Astonishing…
1945: (Lescot's Erasure of Rural-to-Urban Migration — Lescot's Framing of Peasant and Poor People's Presumed Hyperreproductivity Alongside Overpopulation Being an Erasure of the Increased Patterns of Rural-to-Urban Migration Since the…
1930s-1940s: (Plasaj as Honorable Union — Lescot's Term Polygamy Being a Reference to Plasaj the Common-Law Marriage That Could but Did Not Always Involve Multiple Partners, in Lescot's Formulation Plasaj…
1937-1938: (Plasaj and Fertility — Comhaire-Sylvain Documenting That Families Used Plasaj to Address Infertility and Infant Mortality, in 1937 Interviewing a Woman and Her Husband Who Lost Seven Children Through…
1930s-1940s: (Plasaj Marriages as Interim Partnerships — Many Plasaj Marriages Viewed as Interim Partnerships Insured by Family-Proctored Contracts Until Legal Marriage Was Desired, Unlike the Assumptions of the Marriage Tax…
1944-12: (The Child Inheritance Law — Lescot's True Concern with Plasaj Being Less About Honorable Partnerships and More About Legitimacy, Sandwiched Between the Wage and Marriage Tax Legislation Being the…
1944: (The Contradictions of the Child Inheritance Law — While the Child Inheritance Law Authorized Research for Paternity and Gave Children Born Out of Marriage the Same Rights to Inheritance…
1944-1945: (Lescot's True Agenda — Land Control Through Marriage and Legitimacy — the Regulation on Legitimacy Being Anchored in Women's Reproduction Sexual Practices and Labor to the Land, Lescot Anticipating…
1944-1945: (Women's Unchecked Mobility as the State's True Concern — the Role of Women in the Peasant Economy Necessitating That Women Simultaneously Bear Children Work Rural Plots and Sell That…