During the medieval period, practices like dowry and child marriage became widespread, and marriage itself became a more ...

Genetic analysis of 60 people buried in a Stone Age cemetery has revealed two clans headed by women that spanned 10 ...

"We had no reason to suspect the child's parents were closely related." In most societies, relationships between close kin are viewed as taboo. But in some ancient cultures, the elites were not ...

A tutor had considerable powers, and could force the woman out of one marriage and into another ... with the sex manuals of Elephantis. In Ancient Rome as in Victorian England, virtuous restraint ...