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Marriage rites and rights / edited by Joanna Miles, Perveez Mody and Rebecca Probert.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Hart Publishing, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: xvi, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781849469135
  • 9781782259664 (online)
  • 184946913X
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • KD753 .M37 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Rebecca Probert, Joanna Miles and Perveez Mody -- Marriage rites : trends in marriages by manner of solemnisation and denomination in England and Wales, 1841-2012 / John Haskey -- From this day forward? : pre-marital cohabitation and the rite of marriage from the 1960s to the present day / Rebecca Probert -- No frills : wedding presents and the meaning of marriage, 1945-2003 / Louise Purbrick -- Civil partnership ceremonies : (hetero)normativity, ritual and gender / Elizabeth Peel -- Rite that redefines the rights? : the contemporary role and practice of pre-nuptial agreement / Ayesha Verdag and Joanna Miles -- The 'Pure' relationship, sham marriages and immigration control / Helena Wray -- Unregistered Muslim marriages : an emerging culture of celebrating rites and conceding rights / Rajnaara C. Akhtar -- Forced marriage : rites and rights / Perveez Mody -- Church of England weddings and ritual symbolism / Sarah Farrimond -- Playing "House of Lords bingo" : a critical discourse analysis of Hansard debates on civil partnership and same sex marriage / Rosie Harding -- Let's talk about a divorce : religious and legal wedding / Peter W. Edge -- Why marriage needs to be sexy / Jonathan Herring.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Rebecca Probert, Joanna Miles and Perveez Mody -- Marriage rites : trends in marriages by manner of solemnisation and denomination in England and Wales, 1841-2012 / John Haskey -- From this day forward? : pre-marital cohabitation and the rite of marriage from the 1960s to the present day / Rebecca Probert -- No frills : wedding presents and the meaning of marriage, 1945-2003 / Louise Purbrick -- Civil partnership ceremonies : (hetero)normativity, ritual and gender / Elizabeth Peel -- Rite that redefines the rights? : the contemporary role and practice of pre-nuptial agreement / Ayesha Verdag and Joanna Miles -- The 'Pure' relationship, sham marriages and immigration control / Helena Wray -- Unregistered Muslim marriages : an emerging culture of celebrating rites and conceding rights / Rajnaara C. Akhtar -- Forced marriage : rites and rights / Perveez Mody -- Church of England weddings and ritual symbolism / Sarah Farrimond -- Playing "House of Lords bingo" : a critical discourse analysis of Hansard debates on civil partnership and same sex marriage / Rosie Harding -- Let's talk about a divorce : religious and legal wedding / Peter W. Edge -- Why marriage needs to be sexy / Jonathan Herring.