Romancing heterosexuality in popular culture, edited by chrys ingraham. Request pdf on jan 1, 2004, carol cassell and others published white weddings. Do samesex and straight weddings aspire to the fairytale. To understand the significance of white weddings, it is crucial to attain a sense of the operation of the. Sociology, and intellectual inquiry more generally, have long been preoccupied with a set of big questions. The very word wedding invokes an immediate set of stereotypical images that include a bride in a formal white gown, attendants, rings, a reception. Ingraham draws on popular media, such as bridal magazines, childrens toys, feature films, television, and advertising to reveal how they regulate gender, sexuality, race, and class. Romancing heterosexuality in popular culture, edited by chrys ingraham find, read and cite all the research you. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Weve been brainwashed, she argues in her new book white weddings.
Easily share your publications and get them in front of issuus. White weddings chrys ingraham download here peering behind the veil to question the meaning of weddings in american popular culture, ingraham finds nothing less than a wedding industrial complex with annual revenues in excess of 30 billion dollars. This second edition has benefited from the addition of new material, with ingraham closely. Romancing heterosexuality in popular culture, by chrys ingraham. Womens conformity and resistance to traditional weddings article in sociological perspectives 594 august 2015 with 33 reads. The sociology professor writes about how weddings have. Ingraham s white weddings is the academics version of a say yes to the dress marathon. White weddings is the first book to investigate the underside of this recessionproof industry, exposing how weddings are used to sell a heterosexual fairy tale. White weddings chrys ingraham by phoebe constantine issuu. How weddings regulate heterosexuality chrys ingraham russell sage college, troy all aspects of our social world natural or otherwise are. Chrys ingraham is professor and chair of sociology at purchase college of the state university. How weddings regulate heterosexuality chrys ingraham russell sage college, troy all aspects of our social world natural or otherwise are given meaning.
This is a groundbreaking study of our cultures obsession with weddings. Chrys ingraham s white weddings uses the typical white wedding so popular in the united states to investigate normative heterosexuality, globalized economic structures, and the impact of popular culture on ritualized aspects of life. By examining popular films, commercials, magazines, advertising, television sitcoms and even childrens toys, this book shows the pervasive influence of weddings in our culture and the important role they play in maintaining the romance of heterosexuality, the myth of white supremacy and the insatiable appetite of. The 15yearold books film and tv examples ellen, suddenly susan feel dated, and the references to the role of gay men in media representations of weddings needs to be updated now that samesex marriage is legal always a bridal planner, never a bride. Amazing ebook, white weddings romancing heterosexuality in popular culture author chrys ingraham this is very good and becomes the main topic to read, the readers are very takjup and always take inspiration from the contents of the book white weddings romancing heterosexuality in popular culture, essay by chrys ingraham. Romancing heterosexuality in popular culture, 1st edition.
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