In this Book
As Long as We Both Shall Love: The White Wedding in Postwar America
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.
Table of Contents
Cover/Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. âLinking the Past with the Futureâ: Origins of the Postwar White Wedding
2. âThe Same Thing That Happens to All Bridesâ: Luci Johnson, the American Public, and the White Wedding
3. âGetting Married Should Be Funâ: Hippie Weddings and Alternative Celebrations
4. âLots of Young People Today Are Doing Thisâ: The White Wedding Revived
5. âIt Matters Not Who We Love, Only That We Loveâ: Same-Sex Weddings
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
| ISBN | 9780814764763 |
|---|---|
| Related ISBN(s) | 9780814737811 |
| MARC Record | Download |
| OCLC | 854974601 |
| Pages | 252 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2013-10-21 |
| Language | English |
| Open Access | Yes |
Copyright
2013
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