Femmes Macabres

28: Two Rings to Rule None at All (Part 2)

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In part two of Steph and Erin's series on weddings, the girls chat about the wedding industry in general, because what is more macabre than diet culture and capitalism?


Episode Resources

  • CURRIE, DAWN H. “‘Here Comes the Bride’ : The Making of a ‘Modern Traditional’ Wedding in Western Culture.” Journal of Comparative Family Studies, vol. 24, no. 3, 1993, pp. 403–21. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41602301. 
  • Fetner, Tina, and Melanie Heath. “Do Same-Sex and Straight Weddings Aspire to the Fairytale? Women’s Conformity and Resistance to Traditional Weddings.” Sociological Perspectives, vol. 59, no. 4, 2016, pp. 721–42. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26340178. 
  • Howard, Vicki. “A ‘Real Man’s Ring’: Gender and the Invention of Tradition.” Journal of Social History, vol. 36, no. 4, 2003, pp. 837–56. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3790353.
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