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Author Dunak, Karen M.

Title As long as we both shall love : the white wedding in postwar America / Karen M. Dunak.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (x, 244 pages)
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Note Revision of the author's doctoral thesis.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- "Linking the past with the future" : origins of the postwar white wedding -- "The same thing happens to all brides" : Luci Johnson, the American public, and the white wedding -- "Getting married should be fun" : hippie weddings and alternative celebrations -- "Lots of young people today are doing this" : the white wedding revived -- "It matters not who we love, only that we love" : same-sex weddings -- Conclusion.
Note Print version record.
Summary When Kate Middleton married Prince William in 2011, hundreds of millions of viewers watched the Alexander McQueen-clad bride and uniformed groom exchange vows before the Archbishop of Canterbury in Westminster Abbey. The wedding followed a familiar formula: ritual, vows, reception, and a white gown for the bride. Commonly known as a white wedding, the formula is firmly ensconced in popular culture, with movies like Father of the Bride or Bride Wars, shows like Say Yes to the Dress and Bridezillas, and live broadcast royal or reality-TV weddings garnering millions of viewers each year. Despite being condemned by some critics as "cookie-cutter" or conformist, the wedding has in fact progressively allowed for social, cultural, and political challenges to understandings of sex, gender, marriage, and citizenship, thereby providing an ideal site for historical inquiry. This book establishes that the evolution of the American white wedding emerges from the nation's proclivity towards privacy and the individual, as well as the increasingly egalitarian relationships between men and women in the decades following World War II. Blending cultural analysis of film, fiction, advertising, and prescriptive literature with personal views expressed in letters, diaries, essays, and oral histories, the author engages ways in which the modern wedding emblemizes a diverse and consumerist culture and aims to reveal an ongoing debate about the power of peer culture, media, and the marketplace in America. Rather than celebrating wedding traditions as they "used to be" and critiquing contemporary celebrations for their lavish leanings, this text provides a nuanced history of the American wedding and its celebrants. -- Provided by publisher
Language English.
Subject Weddings -- United States -- History.
Marriage customs and rites -- United States -- History.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971-
Noces -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
Mariage -- Rites et cérémonies -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
États-Unis -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 1945-1970.
États-Unis -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 1971-
REFERENCE -- Weddings.
HISTORY -- United States -- General.
Manners and customs
Marriage customs and rites
Weddings
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Chronological Term Since 1945
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: Dunak, Karen M. As long as we both shall love. New York : New York University Press, [2013] 9780814737811 (DLC) 2013009421 (OCoLC)837923022
ISBN 9780814764763 (electronic bk.)
0814764762 (electronic bk.)
9780814737811
0814737811
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DEBBG BV041634456
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DEBSZ 397583737
DEBSZ 421246278
NZ1 15318549

 
    
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