1. Ingraham Chapters 2, 3, & 4

2. Group One: pp. 59-76Primary Wedding Market Purchasing the Wedding Gown Wedding Gown Production Group Two: pp. 76-86Wedding Gifts Diamond Wedding Jewelry DeBeers Diamond Mining International Group Three: pp. 86-94Wedding Consulting Destination Weddings Sandals Group Resort Group Four: pp. 95-102Secondary Wedding Market Mattel & Toy Industry Mattel: Now & Then Disney & Secondary Market Group Five: pp. 106-113The State Religion Mass Media Conclusion

3. Romancing the Clone (title & throughout the chapter) Wedding industrial complexofficial breaks – Bourdieu (122) Wedding ideological complexlegitimize oppressive treatment (118) Gender (119)popular culture (122 & elsewhere) Heterogender (119)meaning-making processes (123) romance; romantic love (123) white privilege (141) assimilation (140) bell hooks Transnational capitalist patriarchy (121) Heterogendered division of labor (124-125) The whole phrase: Competition, another central organizing principal of capitalism, combined with meaning-making systems circulating in an array of social practices including weddings, sets the terms for consenting to the ruling order and to its mechanisms for distributing whats left over. (122) cultural codes of femininity (144) signifiers of femininity (145) spectacle of accumulation (147,158) Celebrity spectacle (151) Last two paragraphs of the chapter (166-167) make sure you understand her arguments…

4. THIS WORK IS DUE: March 18– Prep Work for this chapter: You have been assigned one of the seven films on p. 171. Read the chapter and take notes on vocabulary and on the argument she is making – especially around the film you have been assigned. Then WATCH THE FILM. Assess her analysis of the film against your analysis. Take notes on your response and assessment using her theoretical language. Then for those of you willing to take your education even further: Come to class on Tuesday, March 18 prepared with video clips (five minutes max) from one of the films Ingraham lists on p. 171. Select either a powerful affective moment (p. 172) of the film, or a scene that illustrates the argument Ingraham makes about the film. Others of you could bring additional ideological devices, heterogendered ideological messages found in the mass media…(clips from shows like Greys Anatomy. ). bring the file, find the scene on youtube, etc…