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Book Synopsis The Wedding Complex by : Elizabeth Freeman
Download or read book The Wedding Complex written by Elizabeth Freeman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-31 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Wedding Complex Elizabeth Freeman explores the significance of the wedding ceremony by asking what the wedding becomes when you separate it from the idea of marriage. Freeman finds that weddings—as performances, fantasies, and rituals of transformation—are sites for imagining and enacting forms of social intimacy other than monogamous heterosexuality. Looking at the history of Anglo-American weddings and their depictions in American literature and popular culture from the antebellum era to the present, she reveals the cluster of queer desires at the heart of the "wedding complex"—longings not for marriage necessarily but for public forms of attachment, ceremony, pageantry, and celebration. Freeman draws on queer theory and social history to focus on a range of texts where weddings do not necessarily lead to legal marriage but instead reflect yearnings for intimate arrangements other than long-term, state-sanctioned, domestic couplehood. Beginning with a look at the debates over gay marriage, she proceeds to consider literary works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, Vladimir Nabokov, and Edgar Allan Poe, along with such Hollywood films as Father of the Bride, The Graduate, and The Godfather. She also discusses less well-known texts such as Su Friedrich’s experimental film First Comes Love and the off-Broadway, interactive dinner play Tony ‘n’ Tina’s Wedding. Offering bold new ways to imagine attachment and belonging, and the public performance and recognition of social intimacy, The Wedding Complex is a major contribution to American studies, queer theory, and cultural studies.
Book Synopsis The Wedding Spectacle Across Contemporary Media and Culture by : Jilly Boyce Kay
Download or read book The Wedding Spectacle Across Contemporary Media and Culture written by Jilly Boyce Kay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book interrogates the hyper-visibility and stubborn endurance of the wedding spectacle across media and culture in the current climate. The wide-ranging chapters consider why the symbolic power of weddings is intensifying at a time when marriage as an institution appears to be in decline – and they offer new insights into the shifting and complex gender politics of contemporary culture. The collection is a feminist project but does not straight-forwardly renounce the wedding spectacle. Rather, the diverse contributions offer close analyses of the myriad forms and practices of the wedding spectacle, from reality television and cinematic film to wedding videography and bridal boutiques. Drawing on feminist and queer theory, the chapters illuminate the paradoxes, contradictions, disappointments, cruelties and pleasures that are intimately bound up with the wedding spectacle. Written by leading and emerging feminist scholars, the chapters range across different national and cultural contexts to explore how the gender politics of weddings are changing and adapting to a new cultural and social landscape. This in-depth analysis of the wedding spectacle will appeal to academics and researchers in the fields of gender and mass media, cultural studies, feminist studies, and intercultural communication.
Book Synopsis Culture Incarnate by : Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
Download or read book Culture Incarnate written by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1995 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As old national boundaries erode and political uncertainty and ethnic assertion emerge, new voices of anthropologists and ethnographers studying their own cultures have begun to be heard more clearly. This collection focuses on the former Soviet Union, where non-Russian academics are studying their people's ethnography, folklore, rituals, languages, ethnic conflicts, and other areas. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis A Priceless Wedding by : Sara Cotner
Download or read book A Priceless Wedding written by Sara Cotner and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plan a wedding that reflects your commitment—to each other and to the things you truly value. How you and your partner plan your wedding can set a precedent for how you will be as a family. How do you work together to merge two different sets of ideas into something bigger and better? How do you disagree in constructive rather than destructive ways? How do you honor the input and experience of family members while simultaneously maintaining ownership of your lives and choices? In this part-memoir, part how-to handbook, popular wedding blogger Sara Cotner shares how you can resist the pressure to create the wedding of someone else's dreams and instead reclaim the real purposes of a wedding: community, connection, commitment, and fun. A Priceless Wedding covers all the basics: securing a location, finding a dress, deciding on flowers, selecting a wedding party, planning the ceremony, choosing rings, and everything in between—but it goes beyond the elements of a "traditional" wedding to help you plan an eco-friendly, hand-crafted, budget-minded celebration that will be both memorable and meaningful. Featuring do-it-yourself projects that help you create your own unique wedding favors, sew a homemade wedding quilt, and more, this book will inspire you to begin your own traditions and rituals that will clarify your values and let you live them out loud.
Book Synopsis The English Sentence by : William Francis Lewis Sanders
Download or read book The English Sentence written by William Francis Lewis Sanders and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World by : Mary Zeiss Stange
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World written by Mary Zeiss Stange and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 2017 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work includes 1000 entries covering the spectrum of defining women in the contemporary world.
Book Synopsis Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan by : Geoffrey F. Hughes
Download or read book Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan written by Geoffrey F. Hughes and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan, Geoffrey Hughes sets out to trace the "marriage crisis" in Jordan and the Middle East. Rapid institutional, technological, and intellectual shifts in Jordan have challenged the traditional notions of marriage and the role of powerful patrilineal kin groups in society by promoting an alternative ideal of romantic love between husband and wife. Drawing on many years of fieldwork in rural Jordan, Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan provides a firsthand look at how expectations around marriage are changing for young people in the Middle East even as they are still expected to raise money for housing, bridewealth, and a wedding. Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan offers an intriguing look at the contrasts between the traditional values and social practices of rural Jordanians around marriage and the challenges and expectations of young people as their families negotiate the concept of kinship as part of the future of politics, family dynamics, and religious devotion
Book Synopsis The Imperial Dictionary by : John Ogilvie
Download or read book The Imperial Dictionary written by John Ogilvie and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gift Economy written by David Cheal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently we have known more about gift giving practices in pre-industrial societies than about those of industrial western society. In this book, first published in 1988, David Cheal shows that the process of present giving and receiving is a vital element in contemporary social life, relevant to some of the most important theoretical traditions in sociology, particularly those of Durkheim and Weber, and to the social constructionism of Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann. This volume is the result of a major study of gift rituals carried out by David Cheal and his associates in which general themes are richly illustrated with details from individual case histories gathered during the research. It is highly significant that in western society women are more active gift givers than men and, while their voices explain how emotions and interests are interrelated within the gift economy, the author shows how that in turn is related to current theories about family, gender and religion.
Book Synopsis Cracking Complexity by : David Komlos
Download or read book Cracking Complexity written by David Komlos and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complexity has met its match! Today, every leader and organisation grapples with unprecedented complexity. Some thrive in these situations while the vast majority do not. Now updated for a post-Covid world, David Benjamin and David Komlos share their cutting-edge, highly-engaging step-by-step formula for rapidly cracking incredibly knotty and important challenges, by involving and mobilizing all the right people-no matter where they are-to co-create solutions. Filled with compelling stories and advice distilled from years of experience applying the Complexity Formula across a broad range of sectors, Benjamin and Komlos have delivered the defining handbook for current and future leaders. Fully updated to include highly successful and proven virtual methods and practices that have been used to solve real problems. This book serves up the mindset, steps and skills that you and your team will need to crack complexity, wherever you are in the world, so that you can find clarity and build momentum even in the most uncertain of times.
Book Synopsis Cinderella Dreams by : Cele C. Otnes
Download or read book Cinderella Dreams written by Cele C. Otnes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-10-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Book Synopsis Southern Masculinity by : Craig Thompson Friend
Download or read book Southern Masculinity written by Craig Thompson Friend and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The follow-up to the critically acclaimed collection Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South (Georgia, 2004), Southern Masculinity explores the contours of southern male identity from Reconstruction to the present. Twelve case studies document the changing definitions of southern masculine identity as understood in conjunction with identities based on race, gender, age, sexuality, and geography. After the Civil War, southern men crafted notions of manhood in opposition to northern ideals of masculinity and as counterpoint to southern womanhood. At the same time, manliness in the South--as understood by individuals and within communities--retained and transformed antebellum conceptions of honor and mastery. This collection examines masculinity with respect to Reconstruction, the New South, racism, southern womanhood, the Sunbelt, gay rights, and the rise of the Christian Right. Familiar figures such as Arthur Ashe are investigated from fresh angles, while other essays plumb new areas such as the womanless wedding and Cherokee masculinity.
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of the English Language by : Samuel Johnson
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia by :
Download or read book Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies by :
Download or read book Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Postal Pleasures written by Kate Thomas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1889 uniformed post-boys were discovered moonlighting in a West End brothel frequented by men of the upper classes. "The Cleveland Street Scandal" erupted and Victorian Britain faced the possibility that the Post Office-a bureaucratic backbone of nation and empire-was inspiring and servicing subversive sexual behavior. However, the unlikely alliance between sex and the postal service was not exactly the news the sensational press made it out to be. Postal Pleasures explores the relationship between illicit sex and the Royal Mail from reforms initiated in 1840 up to the imperial end of the nineteenth century. With a combination of historical details and literary analyses, Kate Thomas illustrates how the postal network, its uniformed employees, and its material trappings-envelopes, postmarks, stamps-were used to signal and circulate sexual intrigue. For many, the idea of an envelope promiscuously jostling its neighbors in a post boy's bag, or the notion that secrets passed through the eyes and fingers of telegraph girls, was more stimulating than the actual contents of correspondence. Writers like Anthony Trollope, Eliza Lynn Lynton, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, and others, invoked the postal system as both an instrument and a metaphor for sexual relations that crossed and double-crossed lines of class, marriage, and heterosexuality. Postal Pleasures adds a new dimension to studies of the era as it uncovers the unlikely linkage between the Victorian Post Office and the queer networks it inspired.
