Marriage aims to immunize husbands against their own wives

Evidence

For the aim of marriage is to immunize man against his own wife: but other women still have a dizzying effect on him; it is to them he will turn. … And all the more so as man stopped at half measures; he accepted woman into the masculine world only by making her a servant, in thwarting her transcendence; the freedom she was granted could only have a negative use; it only manifests itself in refusal. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 406

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Marriage functions as private insurance when public and market insurance recede — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 888
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Marriage functions as private insurance when public and market insurance recede — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 888