Talk:Womanless wedding
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References
[edit]Jane Harris Woodside insert on Womanless Marriage beginning on pg. 359 in (Wilson, C. R., & Jackson, H. H. (Eds.). (2010). The new encyclopedia of southern culture : sports and recreation. Retrieved from https://ebookcentral.proquest.com)
Discusses common themes of the weddings, community meaning/significance, gives a starting point for the history prior to 20th century, discusses the oral passing of tradition and the beginning of the written history in America, and the shift to commercializing, characters were played by men with higher social status
Hayes, H. (1936). ... A womanless wedding. Boston, Mass. and Los Angeles, Cal: Walter H. Baker Co..
Published copywritten script, gives description of characters, provides example to the commercializing of the tradition with "production fees"
Friend, C. T. (2009). Southern masculinity: Perspectives on manhood in the South since Reconstruction. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
Friend conducts a study called "The Womanless Wedding: Masculinity, Cross-Dressing, and Gender Inversions in the Modern South Plays were meant for entertainment purposes, but pressured cultural values of race, gender, and sexuality, leading to more conservative opinions. Performers were those in society who created the social rules of the the cultural values, allowing them to act out the plays for charity and fund raising without social consequences. "Prominent white men using entertainment to mock parts of southern society that tested social structure: strong willed women, premarital pregnancies, effeminate men, or unruly blacks" Criticisms of prejudice, and civil rights movements, transformed the womanless weddings through time
These are some of the references I found about womanless weddings, these sources should be able to add more specifics of the weddings and their societal purpose. Laceysnyder (talk) 18:28, 3 February 2018 (UTC)