LEADER 04750nam  2201045Ia 450 
001 9910782933303321
005 20230207223507.0
010   $a9786612359729
010   $a0-520-93722-8
010   $a1-282-35972-X
010   $a1-59734-877-5
024 7 $a10.1525/9780520937222
035   $a(CKB)1000000000006971
035   $a(EBL)224231
035   $a(OCoLC)70661721
035   $a(SSID)ssj0000239357
035   $a(PQKBManifestationID)11218782
035   $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000239357
035   $a(PQKBWorkID)10239778
035   $a(PQKB)11175551
035   $a(MiAaPQ)EBC224231
035   $a(DE-B1597)520640
035   $a(OCoLC)1096457108
035   $a(DE-B1597)9780520937222
035   $a(Au-PeEL)EBL224231
035   $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10057125
035   $a(CaONFJC)MIL235972
035   $a(EXLCZ)991000000000006971
100   $a20021029d2003      ub             0
101 0 $aeng
135   $aur|n|---|||||
181   $ctxt
182   $cc
183   $acr
200 10$aRomance on a global stage$b[electronic resource] $epen pals, virtual ethnography, and "mail-order" marriages /$fNicole Constable
210   $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2003
215   $a1 online resource (295 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-520-23705-6 
311   $a0-520-23870-2 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aMaking 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 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.
330   $aBy 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 complex motivations and experiences of the people behind the stereotypes and misconceptions that have exploded along with the practice of transnational courtship and marriage. Combining extensive Internet ethnography and face-to-face fieldwork, Romance on a Global Stage looks at the intimate realities of Filipinas, Chinese women, and U.S. men corresponding in hopes of finding a suitable marriage partner. Through the experiences of those engaged in pen pal relationships-their stories of love, romance, migration, and long-distance dating-this book conveys the richness and dignity of women's and men's choices without reducing these correspondents to calculating opportunists or naive romantics. Attentive to the structural, cultural, and personal factors that prompt women and men to seek marriage partners abroad, Romance on a Global Stage questions the dichotomies so frequently drawn between structure and agency, and between global and local levels of analysis.
606   $aIntercountry marriage$zUnited States
606   $aMarriage brokerage$zUnited States
606   $aMail order brides$zUnited States
606   $aAsians$zUnited States
606   $aInternational correspondence$xSocial aspects
610   $aamerican men.
610   $aasian women.
610   $achinese women.
610   $acultural perspective.
610   $aeastern european women.
610   $aemail order spouses.
610   $aethnographers.
610   $afieldwork.
610   $afilipinas.
610   $aglobalization.
610   $ainternet ethnography.
610   $ainternet.
610   $alatin american women.
610   $alife partners.
610   $along distance dating.
610   $alove and romance.
610   $amail order marriages.
610   $amatching up.
610   $amatchmaking.
610   $amigration.
610   $amisconceptions.
610   $anonfiction.
610   $aonline courtship.
610   $apen pals.
610   $astereotypes.
610   $atransnational marriage.
610   $avirtual ethnography.
610   $awestern men.
615  0$aIntercountry marriage
615  0$aMarriage brokerage
615  0$aMail order brides
615  0$aAsians
615  0$aInternational correspondence$xSocial aspects.
676   $a306.84/5
700   $aConstable$b Nicole$01023774
801  0$bMiAaPQ
801  1$bMiAaPQ
801  2$bMiAaPQ
906   $aBOOK
912   $a9910782933303321
996   $aRomance on a global stage$93743713
997   $aUNINA