What Is a Wife?

The concept of a wife has been embedded in cultures, religious practices, social customs and economic patterns of wildly different sorts.  Is there a core concept of what it is to be a wife?  Is it a good concept, or one that deserves to be thrown on the trash heap of intellectual history because it perpetrates corrosive stereotypes of women?  What conceptions of being a wife do Americans have today?  Join John and Ken as they discuss the topic with Marilyn Yalom, author of A History of the Wife.  This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Marsh Theatre in San Francisco.