Tag: popular culture
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The London Damsel’s Fate by Unjust Tyranny – Forced Marriage in the Seventeenth Century
As a literature scholar, one of the things I find most fascinating about forced marriage is the way in which it has been used as a source of entertainment in popular culture. To be clear, I’m not saying that forced marriage is entertaining. It’s a horrendous, egregious crime. And yet, it has regularly been used…
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Forced Marriage and Fairy Tale Weddings: Hans My Hedgehog.
What do you think of when I say the word ‘fairy tale’? Perhaps you envision Cinderella in her glass slippers, or Snow White with a red apple in her hands. Maybe you think of the endless marketing campaigns of the wedding industry, where ‘fairy tale’ is the defining feature of any marriage, because – as…
Drawing on Forced Marriage 