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This is a groundbreaking study of our culture's obsession with weddings. By examining popular films, commercials, magazines, advertising, television sitcoms and even children's toys, this book shows the pervasive influence of weddings in our culture and the important role they play in maintaining the romance of heterosexuality, the myth of white supremacy and the insatiable appetite of consumer capitalism." It examines how the economics and marketing of weddings have replaced the religious and moral view of marriage..."
This second edition will also include: updates on all census and...

This is an edited collection of new material by some of the top scholars in the area of heterosexual studies.

Presents a study of our culture's obsession with weddings. This book examines popular films, commercials, magazines, advertising, television sitcoms and children's toys, and shows the pervasive influence of weddings in our culture and the important role they play in maintaining the romance of heterosexuality.

What is heterosexuality? In recent years, scholars in all fields have spent so much time defining homosexuality, that the nature of heterosexuality goes unexplored. In White Wedding, Chrys Ingraham began to ask the important questions about the nature of the institution--how was heterosexuality invented, naturalized, normalized, and institutionalized? These questions begin to define the field that Ingraham has dubbed 'Critical Heterosexual Studies'. In Thinking Straight, a collection of original essays will unravel the current heterosexual scene. The collection will be broken into three...