Chapter 3
Origins of marriage in the seizure of women as trophies of exploit; ownership of women as the earliest form of property.
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From The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
Veblen treats the wife of the bourgeois household as a ceremonial consumer whose role is to display her husband's wealth through her dress, idleness, and refinement.
Chapter 4
The wife performs vicarious leisure and consumption on behalf of the household head.
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