Abstract
Marriage, according to the white western traditions examined throughout this book, unites a couple as “one flesh.” The most extreme and asymmetrical incarnation of such union is the practice codified in English law as coverture.
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This was apparently a rare and scandalous occurrence (Menefee 1981). The best-known example is fictional, in the opening chapter of Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge (1939).
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Brook, H. (2007). Union: Adultery and Other Sexual Performatives. In: Conjugal Rites. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137480910_4
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