Men Getting Married in England, 1918–60 Consent, Celebration, Consummation

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...

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Main Author: Penlington, Neil
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Series:Genders and Sexualities in History
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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