Episode 3: Women Are Society Defined

Margaret Mead said women were society defined. Therefore, marriage was not an agreement between the couple, but an agreement with society, and agreement that this woman and this man are off limits, off the market. Yet, beginning in the late 19th Century, chivalry intervened. Women were suddenly damsels in distress, and that was up to society to protect them from rogues, even their husbands.