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1944: (The LFAS Women Fight for Financial Freedoms Within Marriage — LFAS Women Fighting to Change Women’s Financial Freedoms Within Marriage, LFAS Women Hav…

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1944: (The LFAS Women Fight for Financial Freedoms Within Marriage — LFAS Women Fighting to Change Women’s Financial Freedoms Within Marriage, LFAS Women Having Different Opinions About How Women Should Operate in Marriage and Whether or Not They Should Get Out of It Through Divorce — but the Organization Directly and Implicitly Situating Legal Marriage and Motherhood as Ideal Signposts for Respectable Haitian Womanhood, the Title Madan X Holding a Social Currency That Counterbalanced the Restrictions on Personal Liberties): LFAS women fought to change women’s financial freedoms within marriage. As reflected in their organizational materials, LFAS women had different opinions about how women should operate in marriage and whether or not they should get out of it through divorce. But the organization directly and implicitly situated legal marriage and motherhood as ideal signposts for respectable Haitian womanhood. Despite the inequalities for women under legal marriage, LFAS women maintained that it was a worthy institution, and that the title “Madan X” held a social currency that counterbalanced the restrictions on personal liberties — the feminists who fought for women’s wages nonetheless upheld the institution that confiscated them, the contradiction embedded not as failure but as strategy, the title “Madan” being the coin they traded for legibility in a patriarchal state.

Source HT-WGBN-000229