{"text":"[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.","author":"Antonia Fraser","tags":["dignity","empowerment","feminism","gender","history","independence","inequality","marriage","married-life","matrimony","men","misogyny","perception","self-abnegation","self-determination","social-norms","subjugation","wedlock","women","women-s-rights"],"id":118228,"author_id":"Antonia+Fraser"}