1940s: (The Urban Space Was Still Constricting — Although the LFAS Established a Home Space for Women the Urban Space Was Still Constricting Tight, the Forme…

1940s: (The Urban Space Was Still Constricting — Although the LFAS Established a Home Space for Women the Urban Space Was Still Constricting Tight, the Former French Colonial City Growing Beyond Its Capacity but the Gendered Social Confines Also Being Stifling — So Women Accessed Freedoms Where They Saw Openings: in Some Cases the Foyer Was an Opening and in Others the Sea Was More Spacious): Although the LFAS established a home space for women, the urban space was still constricting — tight. The former French colonial city was growing beyond its capacity, but the gendered social confines were also stifling. So women accessed freedoms where they saw openings. In some cases, the Foyer was an opening, and in others the sea was more spacious — the sentence placed the feminist classroom and the ocean on the same continuum of escape, both offering what the city withheld: room to breathe.