Introduction: Marriage's Global Past
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Peer-reviewed
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Authors
McDougall, S
Pearsall, SMS
Abstract
The picture looks familiar to Western eyes—the happy couple cutting the cake to celebrate their marriage. The pose is classic wedding stuff— hands of both spouses holding the knife on the tall white cake. It was a special moment, one to treasure in photos. Yet one man’s expression is cheeky, like a naughty school boy. The expression and the picture suggest that they were doing something utterly traditional, yet at the same time outrageously subversive. Indeed they were.
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4405 Gender Studies, 4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 44 Human Society
Journal Title
Gender and History
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Journal ISSN
0953-5233
1468-0424
1468-0424
Volume Title
29
Publisher
Wiley