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A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a female child or adolescent is referred to as a girl. Typically, women are of the female sex and...

activity outside of marriage was judged to be immoral. Divorce law changes during the late 19th century gave rise to a New Woman who could survive a divorce...

: wives) is a woman in a marital relationship. A woman who has separated from her partner continues to be a wife until their marriage is legally dissolved...

dependent on, in servitude to or regarded as possessions of their husbands, and to ensure the survival of the clan. The practice of levirate marriage...

century, women were expected to resign from their academic posts upon marriage, so any woman who wanted to keep her academic career had to make housing arrangements...

marriage. By the eighth century, the preferred form of marriage was one between social equals, under which a woman was technically legally dependent on...

benefits of marriage. Texts: ARIZONA CONSTITUTION - ARTICLE XXX. MARRIAGE: 1. Marriage Section 1. Only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid...

research?] In metaphors carried over from the Rights of Woman, Wollstonecraft describes marriage as a prison and women as slaves within it. In the first...

Alexandria and Stobaeus that relate to marriage. A Greek play with a similar name, Misogunos (Μισόγυνος) or Woman-hater, is reported by Marcus Tullius Cicero...

The Married Woman is an Indian Hindi-language, romantic drama web series featuring Riddhi Dogra, Monica Dogra, Suhaas Ahuja, and Imaad Shah. Directed...

regions. Same-sex marriage is illegal in most parts of Africa and Asia alike, with the exception of South Africa, Taiwan and some dependent territories. Polygamy...

man and woman in an intimate relationship, form the core of a nuclear family. Many societies throughout history have insisted that a marriage take place...

circumstances (the ghost marriage), Kathleen Gough suggested modifying this to "a woman and one or more other persons." In an analysis of marriage among the Nayar...

financially dependent on abolitionists. The AERA effectively dissolved after an acrimonious meeting in May 1869, and two competing woman suffrage organizations...

Until marriage, women were under the guardianship[citation needed] of their father or another male relative. Once married, the husband became a woman's kyrios...

President of India. The act also entitles an aggrieved woman to demand a maintenance for her dependent children. It was subsequently notified as law in the...

A mail-order bride is a woman who lists herself in catalogs and is selected by a man for marriage. In the twentieth century, the trend primarily involved...

purely feminine woman." The conclusion of the essay is that before a true union can occur, each person must be an individual and self-dependent unit. For women...

In the decrees on marriage of the Council of Trent (twenty-fourth session from 1563), the validity of marriage was made dependent upon the wedding taking...

victory on marriage legislation, Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times, September 3, 2008. Retrieved September 21, 2008. "BBC: "Iran backs first woman minister"...