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

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

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
Main Author: Constable, Nicole (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
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.
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
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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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