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White weddings
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ISBN: 9780415951333 9780415951944 041595133X 0415951941 0203931025 9780203931028 1282315366 9786612315367 9781135928575 1135928576 9781282315365 6612315369 9780203011645 0203011643 9781135928520 9781135928568 1135928568 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York Routledge

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This is a groundbreaking study of our culture's obsession with weddings. By examining popular films, commercials, magazines, advertising, television sitcoms and even children's toys, this book shows the pervasive influence of weddings in our culture and the important role they play in maintaining the romance of heterosexuality, the myth of white supremacy and the insatiable appetite of consumer capitalism. It examines how the economics and marketing of weddings have replaced the religious and moral view of marriage.This second edition includes many new and updated features inclu

The wedding complex : forms of belonging in modern American culture
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ISBN: 0822329891 0822329530 9786613064189 1283064189 0822384000 Year: 2002 Volume: *1 Publisher: Durham London Duke University Press

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A queer literary and cultural studies examination of the wedding ceremony (rather than the resulting marriages) which finds it to be a space of more open possibilities than might normally be supposed.

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