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"This disposes of the rule in California that the male surname is the marital name to the same trash bin where dowries were once tossed out," said Mark Rosenbaum, legal director of the Southern California chapter of the ACLU.

The CYBELE Marriage by Anthony Merchant

MARRIAGE, in the not-too-distant days of yore, was a financial transaction, not unlike glorified prostitution. A father would trade the hand of his Daughter for, say, a team of oxen and a dairy cow. Often, the groom was decades older and no dead ringer for Tom Cruise. The Bride, of course, would have no say in the matter. A ring would be placed on the fourth finger of Her right hand, so the world would understand that She belonged to someone. That She, like the oxen and the dairy cow, was someone's property.

Thanks to the work of Elizabeth Stanton, Victoria Woodhull, Margaret Sanger, Gloria Steinem, and other less heralded Feminists, much progress has been made in the last century or so. Women now get to choose not only whom they marry, but if they will marry at all. Dowries have gone the way of virgin brides and arranged marriages. Wives no longer vow to honor and obey their husbands. Many choose not to adopt the husband's surname.