usatoday.com 에 소개된 책내용인데요, 18세기에는 부인이 잘못하면 신문에 광고를 냈다고 합니다. -_-;;; 'A History of the Wife' By Marilyn Yalom HarperCollins, 441 pp., $30 In the Middle Ages, a husband had a legal right to his wife's clothes, jewelry, even her bed linens. He also had the legal right to beat her. In England in the 17th century, between 20% and 30% of brides arrived at the altar pregnant. Adultery was cited in more than half the divorce cases filed in New England in the 1600s, including one where a wife claimed her husband admitted "that he had Rogered other women and meant to Roger Every Likely Woman He Could and as many as would Let Him." During the 18th century, husbands placed newspaper advertisements about wayward wives: "CATHERINE TREEN having, in violation of her solemn vow, behaved herself in the most disgraceful manner, by leaving her own place of abode, and living in a criminal state with a certain William Collins, a plaisterer, under whose bed she was last night, discovered " From 1852 to 1890, polygamy was a "fundamental tenet" of the Mormon religion. Not all wives complained. Hannah Crosby says she married not because she loved her husband (she didn't), but because "I loved his wives and the spirit of their home." In 1869, a 21-year-old Irish-Catholic woman in New York married, had 11 children and died "exhausted and consumptive" in 1899. Her daughter, Margaret Sanger, would devote herself to making contraception "legal and available to married women." By the mid-1930s, "millions of condoms were being produced and sold" in drugstores, gas stations, barbershops and other venues. During World War II, The Good Housekeeping Cookbook told housewives: "Save every scrap of fat that you would ordinarily throw out." The fat was used to manufacture explosives. Housewives spent between 51 and 56 hours per week on household tasks from the 1920s to the 1960s. By the end of the 20th century, jokes about husbands began supplanting jokes about wives. This one circulated on the Internet: "Behind every successful man is a surprised woman."