SOC 605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Premarital Sex, Exogamy, Barter
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No one was expected to be faithful, monogamous marriage wasn"t introduced, women of the heir expected to be faithful only until they produced the first male heir. After 1850 romantic love starts to emerge because it"s consistent with the transformation from a life of inheritance to the time period of queen victoria, who was one of the first to choose her suitor. Consistent with liberal ideology and capitalism, argued that man was a rational being who should get to choose everything about his life (rather than inheriting it) Women wore white dresses both to their coming out party and their wedding, comes from queen victoria in 1820 (for no particular reason) Coming out party > written letters > meet with father so that he could see if he was suitable. Victorian era norms were that sex should only occur in a monogamous, heterosexual marriage and only for procreation, never for pleasure.
