Crackpot theory of the day: dowries are a thing because they are eugenic.
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@A_P_Mason associated with female infanticide - interesting stuff but not very heart warming ;)
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@sarahdoingthing Not getting aborted/ killed while a baby is a no-kidding-around instance of male privilege. - 3 more replies
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@sarahdoingthing There's also northern Europe up until 1400s or so. Strangely, in my mind, the archetypal instance of of a dowry-practising> -
@sarahdoingthing <society is Victorian Britain, women would come into their inheritance when they married. No polygamy or concubinage there.
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