The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture (Series Q)

by ElizabethFreeman (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $44.55

  Explores the significance of the wedding ceremony by asking what the wedding becomes when you separate it from the idea of marriage. This book finds that weddings - as performances, fantasies, and rituals of transformation - are sites for imagining and enacting forms of social intimacy other than monogamous heterosexuality.