Bridal Registry: Coverture

2025

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Coverture (noun)
1. A cover or covering; shelter; concealment.
2. Law. the status of a married woman considered as under the protection and authority of her husband

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In Coverture, the bride becomes the china. Referencing wedding registries and the historical legal doctrine that absorbed a woman’s identity into that of her husband, the work examines how marriage has shaped women’s roles as both adornment and property within the domestic sphere.

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