The wedding complex : forms of belonging in modern American culture / Elizabeth Freeman.
| Author/creator | Freeman, Elizabeth, 1966- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Durham : Duke University Press, 2002. |
| Description | xix, 288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Series Q Series Q. ^A322846 |
| Contents | Love among the ruins -- The we of me: the member of the wedding's novel alliances -- That troth which failed to plight: race, the wedding, and kin aesthetics in Absalom, Absalom! -- A diabolical circle for the divell to daunce in: foundational weddings and the problem of civil marriage -- Honeymoon with a stranger: private couplehood and the making of the national subject -- The immediate country, or, heterosexuality in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Coda. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-277) and index. |
| LCCN | 2002003196 |
| ISBN | 0822329530 (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0822329891 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |