LAW121 - Women as Property
Channel: mohsenalattar1
Date: 2011-10-13

The tradition that a father 'gives away' his daughter to her husband during the marriage ceremony (often followed by the adoption of his surname) is traced back to the days when a married woman ceased to have an independent legal existence under English law. This lecture considers how practices that we may see as archaic nevertheless continue to permeate the way the law views family violence.