I love reading your researchy-thinky posts like this, even when I don't have much to add because when I do come up with a thought, I see you've already come up with it too.
I would think that the apparent difference in women's rights -- women in the military, running their own businesses, etc, presented as "not a new or strange thing" -- would affect laws concerning marriage, but I am too brain-fogged to work out a thorough theory of how.
Plus, control by what is or isn't written down (or what records get destroyed -- but they existed to *be* destroyed) seems to be an important theme.
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I would think that the apparent difference in women's rights -- women in the military, running their own businesses, etc, presented as "not a new or strange thing" -- would affect laws concerning marriage, but I am too brain-fogged to work out a thorough theory of how.
Plus, control by what is or isn't written down (or what records get destroyed -- but they existed to *be* destroyed) seems to be an important theme.