Campus eBookstore Logo

Skip Navigation LinksEBook Details

Prenuptial Rituals in Scotland: Blackening the Bride and Decorating the Hen

Prenuptial Rituals in Scotland: Blackening the Bride and Decorating the Hen
Author: Sheila M. Young
Price: $111.00
ISBN-10: 1793603871
ISBN-13: 9781793603876
Get It!:
Delivery: BibliU Reader
Duration: Lifetime

Note:
Copy Selections To Clipboard: Copying content to the clipboard is completely disabled
Printing Pages: Printing pages is completely disabled

Description

The hen (or bachelorette) party, with its groups of visible, raucous women on trains, planes, and in public spaces is ubiquitous throughout the English-speaking world. The practice of the blackening, a unique form of kidnapping and “punishment” ritual, is limited to North Eastern parts of Scotland and to specific sectors of the population. Both are prenuptial rituals enacted by women. In Prenuptial Rituals in Scotland, Sheila Young produces a thorough description of how these two rituals were and are enacted and analyzes the ways these practices have changed through time as a social commentary. Young’s study provides valuable insights into identity, gender, social class, contemporary attitudes to ritual, and what it means to approach marriage in the twenty first century.