White Weddings - Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture (Hardcover, 2nd edition)

From sitcoms and soap operas to talk shows and movies, Americans are in love with the idea of a white wedding. The happy bride and groom smile from the covers of fashion and entertainment magazines, and appear in TV commercials to sell everything from life insurance to antacid. Fascinated by this national obsession, Chrys Ingraham peers behind the veil to question the meaning of weddings in American popular culture. What she finds is nothing less than a wedding industrial complex. The wedding industry does a thriving business with annual revenues in excess of 30 billion dollars. The average cost of a wedding is over $19,000, with 2.4 million couples getting married each year. White Weddings is the first book to investigate the underside of this recession-proof industry, exposing how weddings are used to sell a heterosexual fairy tale. Ingraham draws on popular media, such as bridal magazines, children's toys, feature films, television, and advertising to reveal how they regulate gender, sexuality, race, and class. relies on romantic and sacred notions of heterosexuality to maintain the illusion of normalcy. This entertaining and insightful book will make you think twice about ever wanting to catch the bouquet.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Chrys Ingraham
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	298
Edition:	2nd edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-95194-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Family & other relationships > Marriage & living together > Weddings
LSN:	0-415-95194-1
Barcode:	9780415951944

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