SOC317H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Double Bind, Heterosexuality
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Based on interviews w/ heterosexual engaged couples, i examine how wedding planning work is divided between the bride and the groom and how couple"s meaningfully interpret the division of labor. I find that couple"s wedding planning work disproportionately falls to women, especially that labor that is invisible. Wedding work, in many respects, is another form of unpaid and unappreciated women"s work, not that unlike housework. Yet, couples do not understand wedding work as an unequal pursuit. Couples use an assortment of interactional strategies to interpret wedding work as a joint and equal enterprise. Children"s toy makers offer young girls wedding dolls and wedding accessories, suggesting that wedding is an important and desirable part of being a woman. The commercial wedding industry targets women almost exclusively. The wedding as a sight for family work. The wedding creates the conjugal unit, establishes new relationship between the relatives and transfers the participants from adolescent to the adult category.
