Women and Same-Sex Marriage in Western History

A survey of strategies for getting your historical protagonists hitched across the centuries.

In this episode we talk about

How the concepts of “women”, “same-sex”, and “marriage” are being defined for the purpose of this discussion
Cultures that may have supported marriage between women as an equal option
Cases of same-sex marriage enabled by presenting as an opposite sex couple
The permeability of the “opposite sex” requirement in actual practice
Using the forms and rituals of marriage, even when the legal status was not available

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