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100 1  Dunak, Karen M.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       no2011083462 
245 10 As long as we both shall love :|bthe white wedding in 
       postwar America /|cKaren M. Dunak. 
264  1 New York :|bNew York University Press,|c[2013] 
300    x, 244 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
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500    Revision of the author's doctoral thesis. 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-238) and 
       index. 
505 0  Introduction -- "Linking the past with the future" : 
       origins of the postwar white wedding -- "The same thing 
       happens to all brides" : Luci Johnson, the American public,
       and the white wedding -- "Getting married should be fun" :
       hippie weddings and alternative celebrations -- "Lots of 
       young people today are doing this" : the white wedding 
       revived -- "It matters not who we love, only that we love"
       : same-sex weddings -- Conclusion. 
520    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. 
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       sh85145906|zUnited States|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
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       authorities/subjects/sh99005024 
650  7 Weddings.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1173328 
650  7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235 
650  7 Manners and customs.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
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