co-wives
plural ofco-wife
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co-wives
Only men and women with whom the woman was familiar had access to this space : her husband, family members, agemates of her husband,co-wivesand other women friends.
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Colonial intervention institutionalized instability in marriage by legitimizing a multitude of mediational domains for the domestic disputes that characterize relations between husbands and wives, and betweenco-wivesand female in-laws.
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Third, by the device of an incomplete wedding it makes the twoco-wivesmore unequal in status and power than a first and second wife inevitably would be.
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In one popular story, envious of being outdone by each other, theco-wivesbegin to quarrel.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Families were usually polygamous, with the first wife accorded a special status among herco-wives.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Althoughco-wiveshold equal status, relations between them are expected to be adversarial.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Women spent thirty hours a week fetching wood, and only whenco-wiveswere sisters, or an aunt or niece, were they expected to work together regularly.
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