Romance on a global stage : pen pals, virtual ethnography, and "mail-order" marriages /

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By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America had become an example of globalization writ large. This provocative work opens a window onto the com...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Constable, Nicole (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Intercountry marriage > United States.
Marriage brokerage > United States.
Mail order brides > United States.
Asians > United States.
International correspondence > Social aspects.
International correspondence > United States.
Mariage interethnique > États-Unis.
Courtage matrimonial > États-Unis.
Mariage par correspondance > États-Unis.
Asiatiques > États-Unis.
Correspondance internationale > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Marriage & Family.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
International correspondence.
Asians.
Intercountry marriage.
Mail order brides.
Marriage brokerage.
Huwelijksbemiddeling.
Internet.
Vrouwen.
Aziaten.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Making introductions
  • Ethnography in imagined virtual communities
  • Feminism and myths of "mail-order" marriages
  • Fairy tales, family values, and the global politics of romance
  • Political economy and the cultural logics of desire
  • Women's agency and the gendered geography of marriage
  • Tales of waiting: history, immigration, and the state
  • Conclusion: marriage, migration, and transnational families.

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