Love and globalization : transformations of intimacy in the contemporary world

Love and globalization : transformations of intimacy in the contemporary world / Mark B. Padilla ... [et al.].

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Padilla, Mark, 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, 2007.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Intimacy (Psychology) > Cross-cultural studies.
Sex > Cross-cultural studies.
Love > Cross-cultural studies.
Interpersonal relations > Cross-cultural studies.
Globalization > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: cross-cultural reflections on an intimate intersection / Mark B. Padilla ... [et al.]
  • Neo-liberalism and the marriage of reputation and respectability: entrepreneurship and the Barbadian middle class / Carla Freeman
  • Tourism and tigueraje : the structures of love and silence among Dominican male sex workers / Mark B. Padilla
  • "If there is no feeling-- " : the dilemma between silence and coming out in a working-class butch/femme community in Jakarta / Saskia E. Wieringa
  • "Love makes a family" : globalization, companionate marriage, and the modernization of gender inequality / Jennifer S. Hirsch
  • The strange marriage of love and interest : economic change and emotional intimacy in northeast Brazil, private and public / L.A. Rebhun
  • A fluid mechanics of erotas and aghape : family planning and maternal consumption in contemporary Greece / Heather Paxson
  • Loving your infertile Muslim spouse : notes on the globalization of IVF and its romantic commitments in Sunni Egypt and Shia Lebanon / Marcia C. Inhorn
  • Playcouples in paradise : touristic sexuality and lifestyle travel / Katherine Frank
  • Buying and selling the "girlfriend experience" : the social and subjective contours of market intimacy / Elizabeth Bernstein
  • Love work in a tourist town : Dominican sex workers and resort workers perform at love / Denise Brennan
  • Romancing the club : love dynamics between Filipina entertainers and GIs in U.S. military camp towns in South Korea / Sealing Cheng
  • Love at first sight? : visual images and virtual encounters with bodies / Nicole Constable.

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