Title: The origins of marriage
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Content: The rules were so strict that any American woman who married a foreigner immediately lost her citizenship. How did this tradition change? Women won the right to vote. When that happened, in 1920, the institution of marriage began a dramatic transformation. Suddenly, each union consisted of two full citizens, although tradition dictated that the husband still ruled the home. By the late 1960s, state laws forbidding interracial marriage had been thrown out, and the last states had dropped laws against the use of birth control. By the 1970s, the law finally recognized the concept of marital rape, which up to that point was inconceivable, as the husband owned his wifes sexuality. The idea that marriage is a private relationship for the fulfillment of two individuals is really very new, said historian Stephanie Coontz, author of The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. Within the past 40 years, marriage has changed more than in the last 5,000.
Men who married men
Gay marriage is rare in historybut not unknown.