The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture

by Elizabeth Freeman

In The Wedding Complex Elizabeth Freeman explores the significance of the wedding ceremony by asking what the wedding becomes when you separate it from the idea of marriage. Freeman finds that weddings--as performances, fantasies, and rituals of transformation--are sites for imagining and enacting forms of social intimacy other than monogamous heterosexuality. Looking at the history of Anglo-American weddings and their depictions in American literature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822329891
• ISBN13: 9780822329893
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"