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As Long as We Both Shall Love - The White Wedding in Postwar America (Paperback): Karen M. Dunak As Long as We Both Shall Love - The White Wedding in Postwar America (Paperback)
Karen M. Dunak
R767 Discovery Miles 7 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In As Long as We Both Shall Love, Karen M. Dunak provides a nuanced history of the American wedding and its celebrants. Blending an analysis of film, fiction, advertising, and prescriptive literature with personal views from letters, diaries, essays, and oral histories, Dunak demonstrates the ways in which the modern wedding epitomizes a diverse and consumerist culture and aims to reveal an ongoing debate about the power of peer culture, media, and the marketplace in America.

As Long as We Both Shall Love - The White Wedding in Postwar America (Hardcover): Karen M. Dunak As Long as We Both Shall Love - The White Wedding in Postwar America (Hardcover)
Karen M. Dunak
R2,255 R1,918 Discovery Miles 19 180 Save R337 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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. As Long as We Both Shall Love establishes that the evolution of the American white wedding emerges from our 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, author Karen M. Dunak 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. Karen M. Dunak is Assistant Professor of History at Muskingum University in New Concord, Ohio.

Mapping United States History - A Coloring and Exercise Book, Volume Two: Since 1865 (Paperback): Michael McGerr, Jan Ellen... Mapping United States History - A Coloring and Exercise Book, Volume Two: Since 1865 (Paperback)
Michael McGerr, Jan Ellen Lewis, James Oakes, Nick Cullather, Mark Summers, …
R1,290 Discovery Miles 12 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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