In Wedded Wife, feminist curator Rachael
Lennon provides an intimate history of modern marriage.
 Having married her wife just a few years after the
legalisation of same sex marriage in the United Kingdom, Lennon
reflects on being one of the small proportion of history’s
women with the choice to formally commit to someone they love and
not automatically sacrifice rights and opportunities. To marry as
they choose and to retain control over their bodies, their children
and their property; to preserve the ability to pursue their own
ambitions; to choose a spouse regardless of sex and to never
promise to obey them.  Marriage has a deep history of
oppressing women and people who expressed gender diversity and
same-sex attraction. It has long enshrined inequalities into law.
Lennon celebrates the work of activists who have transformed the
institution across recent centuries and asks, what compels us to
keep making this choice? Can we let go of the gendered baggage that
we have inherited? Can we hold true to feminist values as we
commit to our partners? And what does that look like? How can we
build on the past to continue to redefine marriage for the future?
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