Men Getting Married in England, 1918-60 [electronic resource] : Consent, Celebration, Consummation / by Neil Penlington.

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Penlington, Neil [author.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Publication details: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.Edition: 1st ed. 2023Description: XV, 239 p. 6 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resourceISBN:

9783031274053

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DDC classification:

305.309 23

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Contents:

1. Introduction: Men and Marriage in England -- 2. Consent and Capacity: Which Men Could Marry? -- 3. Engagement: The Experience and Expectations of Engaged Men -- 4. Celebration: Men and the Wedding -- 5. Consummation: The Sexually 'Normal' Man -- 6. Honeymoon: Masculinity and the Newly-Married Man -- 7. Conclusion: Masculinity and Marriage in Mid-Twentieth-Century England.

Summary: Starting after the Great War, this book charts the rise of the ritualistic engagement, the modern white wedding and the more widely available honeymoon holiday, to show changes and continuities in English masculinity by considering power relations between men and women. Through a close reading of a range of sources (including first-person testimonies, newspapers and etiquette manuals), power relations between bride and groom, and between different generations, are revealed in the context of social class and the rise of consumerism.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
E-Books	National Library of India Online Resource	305.309 (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available		EBK000042094ENG

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Starting after the Great War, this book charts the rise of the ritualistic engagement, the modern white wedding and the more widely available honeymoon holiday, to show changes and continuities in English masculinity by considering power relations between men and women. Through a close reading of a range of sources (including first-person testimonies, newspapers and etiquette manuals), power relations between bride and groom, and between different generations, are revealed in the context of social class and the rise of consumerism.

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