"Many of these bride dolls, such as those produced by The Alexander Doll Company and Mattel, are purchased as gifts by and for real-life brides," she said.
The internet is full of videos of these "bride stealings" set to romantic music.
The fashions this time were as lavish as the production values and, if it required a surfeit of imagination to see how they might adapt to secular life, who says these brides of Christ, stripped bare and released for an evening of debauchery, wouldn't pair one of Browne's fur-and-gold-lamé jackets with, say, a pair of Zara leggings?
These "brides of the sea" (Broeze 1989) are specific as they connect foreland and hinterland through the port (Vigarié 1979; Pearson 1998).
"Likewise, those who surrender their daughters as child brides should be prosecuted, as should those who conduct those illegal ceremonies … and the so-called husbands of these 'child brides' should be charged with child rape," he said.
If they completed a secondary education, the number of these child brides would be reduced by two-thirds, saving two million girls from this fate.
When we were in Ethiopia, Mary Robinson [Ireland's first female president and a former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights] asked one of these child brides, "What do you remember about your wedding day?" And this child looked, I mean, on the point of just breaking down.
She's met many of these child brides.
Someone estimated that by 1914, the daughters of America's plutocrats had enriched British nobility by over £40m (the equivalent of about $4.5 billion today).Were these brides in a position to loosen anything?
