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

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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Constable, Nicole (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.