White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular CulturePeering 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. 20 photos. |
Contents
Chapter One Lifting the Veil | 1 |
Chapter Two The WeddingIndustrial Complex | 20 |
Chapter Three Romancing the Clone | 73 |
Chapter Four Four Weddings and an Industry | 110 |
Chapter Five And They Lived Happily Ever After | 135 |
Epilogue | 141 |
Appendix | 144 |
Endnotes | 157 |
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Photo Permissions | 166 |
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