Penlington Men Getting Married in England, 1918–60

Consent, Celebration, Consummation
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-27405-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 239 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Genders and Sexualities in History

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Penlington, Neil

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Neil Penlington is an independent scholar who received his PhD from Birkbeck, University of London, UK.