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Title: An American Way with Weddings
Review: Jaclyn Geller's excellent new book blends a finely observed social comedy with a thoughtful critique of the cultural ritual of marriage and an exposure of its complicity with the normalizing forces at large within capitalist morality. Taking the elaborate preliminaries, crises and consequences of the wedding event as her central theme, Geller's gentle irony plays over the terrifying subjection of modern woman by the systems of production and consumption. Geller is both eye-opening and vastly entertaining on the subject of marriage. Her writing is stylish, astringent and restrained, her empirical and historical research of the wedding event very full, and her insights into deeper motivations often chilling. Highly recommended for all inside or outside marriage.
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