Title: Marriage rites and rights /
Authors: Miles, Joanna; Mody, Perveez; Probert, Rebecca
Year: 2015
Subjects: Marriage law Great Britain.; Marriage customs and rites Great Britain.; Marriage customs and rites; Marriage law; Great Britain
Contents: 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 -- The 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.