"You go 'cause you have to": The bridal shower as a ritual of obligation

Symbolic Interaction

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 67-92

  Montemurro, Beth ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0036004735     PISSN: 01956086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/si.2002.25.1.67     Document Type: Article

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