Elizabeth Freeman

The Wedding Complex

Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

"Elizabeth Freeman's "The Wedding Complex" performs a crucial scholarly and public service--disentangling the messy, expansive, uncontainable work of the wedding from the normative regulation of the law of marriage. This book is sharp, funny, and deeply significant to current understandings of what is at stake in what are reductively called 'the marriage debates.' A must-read for activists and policymakers as well as across the disciplines."--Lisa Duggan, author of "Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 163mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9780822329534
• ISBN-10: 0822329530
• Artikelnr.: 21349334

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Freeman is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Davis.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Love among the Ruins
2. The We of Me: The Member of the Wedding’s Novel Alliances
3. “That Troth Which Failed to Plight”: Race, the Wedding, and Kin
Aesthetics in Absalom, Absalom!
4. “A Diabolical Circle for the Divell to Daunce In”: Foundational Weddings
and the Problem of Civil Marriage
5. Honeymoon with a Stranger: Private Couplehood and the Making of the
National Subject
6. The Immediate Country, or, Heterosexuality in the Age of Mechanical
Reproduction
Coda
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index