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



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Autore: Constable Nicole Visualizza persona
Titolo: Romance on a global stage [[electronic resource] ] : pen pals, virtual ethnography, and "mail-order" marriages / / Nicole Constable Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
Disciplina: 306.84/5
Soggetto topico: Intercountry marriage - United States
Marriage brokerage - United States
Mail order brides - United States
Asians - United States
International correspondence - Social aspects
Soggetto non controllato: american men
asian women
chinese women
cultural perspective
eastern european women
email order spouses
ethnographers
fieldwork
filipinas
globalization
internet ethnography
internet
latin american women
life partners
long distance dating
love and romance
mail order marriages
matching up
matchmaking
migration
misconceptions
nonfiction
online courtship
pen pals
stereotypes
transnational marriage
virtual ethnography
western men
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Romance on a global stage  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9786612359729
0-520-93722-8
1-282-35972-X
1-59734-877-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910782933303321
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