Something Old, Something New: Bridal Showers and Bachelorette Parties
by Montemurro, Beth
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- as new
- Paperback
- Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 0813538114
- ISBN 13
- 9780813538112
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A.: Rutgers University Press, 2006. Trade Paperback. As New. American weddings are often extravagant, highly ritualized, and costly affairs; based on ethnographic research, this book looks at the wedding process, exploring what prenuptial events mean to women and what they tell us about the complexity and ambiguity of gender roles; through these events, the bride is initiated into the role of wife by her friends and family, who present elaborate scenarios that demonstrate both what she is sacrificing and what she is gaining; it argues that American society is still married to traditional conceptions of masculinity and femininity and that prenuptial rituals contribute to the stabilization of gender inequalities (a bright, clean, tight copy)
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- House of Our Own Books (US)
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- Title
- Something Old, Something New: Bridal Showers and Bachelorette Parties
- Author
- Montemurro, Beth
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0813538114
- ISBN 13
- 9780813538112
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2006
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