1943-1945: (Marriage as Impending Loss of Freedoms — Jeanne Meeting the Topic of Her Own Marriage with Sarcasm and Skepticism, the Wave of Women Getting Lega…

1943-1945: (Marriage as Impending Loss of Freedoms — Jeanne Meeting the Topic of Her Own Marriage with Sarcasm and Skepticism, the Wave of Women Getting Legally Married Being a Pattern to Study Rather Than a Condition to Be Desired — Most Practically in Adjusting to Her First Paying Job She Felt That Earning Her Own Money Was “a Step Up” and Getting Married Would Mean That Her Wages Would Legally No Longer Be Her Own, from This Perspective Marriage Representing Impending Loss of Freedoms and Movement Something Like a Hovering Disease): Jeanne met the topic of her own marriage with sarcasm and skepticism. The wave of women getting legally married was a pattern to study, rather than a condition to be desired. Most practically, in adjusting to her first paying job, she felt that earning her own money was a step up for her, and getting married would mean that her wages would legally no longer be her own. From this perspective, marriage could have represented impending loss of freedoms and movement, something like a hovering disease — the feminist who studied epidemics for the LFAS recognized marriage as another vector of dispossession, the wedding ring a shackle wrapped in ceremony.