219: Wife Selling

219: Wife Selling

Brain Junk
Brain Junk
219: Wife Selling
/

In the 16 and 1700s, wife selling was a type of marital separation that people did when they couldn’t afford divorce. It was shaming, mysoginistic, and patriarchal (basically it was a terrible time to be female). BUT wife selling was an attempt to work within a crushingly unfair system and sometimes even worked to the woman’s advantage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife_selling_(English_custom)

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Related Post