The Kiduyu
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Fairytales, Jane Austen novels, made-for-TV-movies, toothpaste commercials end with weddings and smiling brides, women being feted for their youth and their beauty. But while the brides in popular culture images seem happy enough, such happiness is in most cultures unlikely to last past the wedding day itself, for marriage has been in most historical periods and for most cultures an institution that has restricted and even abrogated the rights of women. We see how marriage has curtailed women's rights and straitened women's lives if we look at marriage and gender roles in three very different society - ancient Greece, Kikuyu and Igbo societies.Married women in ancient Greece society were in generally excluded from public life: Their only socially sanctioned roles were to accept the husband that their fathers had selected for them and then to bear legitimate children for those husbands. Women in Athens were married at a very young age - 14 or 15 - while women in Sparta did not generally marry until they were 18 - a fact that reflects the generally
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Approximate Word count = 710
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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