Cinderella Dreams: The Allure of the Lavish Wedding
by Otnes, Cele C.;Pleck, Elizabeth H
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good Minus
- ISBN 10
- 0520240081
- ISBN 13
- 9780520240087
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Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Univ of California Press, 2003. Book. Very Good Minus. Soft cover. Large, light crease to cover corner. Spine is tight; pgs are unmarked. Nice, sturdy copy. The fabulous gown, the multitiered cake, abundant flowers, attendants and guests in their finery. The white wedding does more than mark a life passage. It marries two of the most sacred tenets of American culture - romantic love and excessive consumption. For anyone who has ever wondered about the meanings behind a white dress, a diamond ring, rice, and traditions such as cake cutting, bouquet tossing, and honeymooning, this book offers an entertaining and enlightening look at the historical, social, and psychological strains that come together to make the lavish wedding the most important cultural ritual in contemporary consumer culture. With an emphasis on North American society, Cele C. Otnes and Elizabeth H. Pleck show how the elaborate wedding means far more than a mere triumph for the bridal industry. Through interviews, media accounts, and wide-ranging research and analysis, they expose the wedding's reflection - or reproduction - of fundamental aspects of popular consumer culture: its link with romantic love, its promise of magical transformation, its engendering of memories, and its legitimization of consumption as an expression of perfection. As meaningful as any prospective bride might wish, the lavish wedding emerges here as a lens that at once reveals, magnifies, and reveres some of the dearest wishes and darkest impulses at the heart of our culture..
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- Title
- Cinderella Dreams: The Allure of the Lavish Wedding
- Author
- Otnes, Cele C.;Pleck, Elizabeth H
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- ISBN 10
- 0520240081
- ISBN 13
- 9780520240087
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- Sociology, Anthropology, women's Studies, Weddings
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- One World-Many Cultures;
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