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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunak, Karen M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weddings--United States--History.

Weddings.

United States--Social life and customs--1945-1970.

United States.

United States--Social life and customs--1971-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2013.

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. “Linking the Past with the Future Origins of the Postwar White Wedding

2. “The Same Thing That Happens to All Brides”

3. “Getting Married Should Be Fun”

4. “Lots of Young People Today Are Doing This”

5. “It Matters Not Who We Love, Only That We Love”

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Revision of the author's doctoral thesis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780814764763

0814764762

OCLC:

854974601

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access