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Romance on a global stage : pen pals, virtual ethnography, and "mail-order" marriages / Nicole Constable.
LIBRA HQ1032 .C65 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Constable, Nicole.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intercountry marriage--United States.
- Intercountry marriage.
- Marriage brokerage--United States.
- Marriage brokerage.
- Mail order brides--United States.
- Mail order brides.
- Asians--United States.
- Asians.
- International correspondence.
- Social aspects.
- United States.
- International correspondence--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- x, 283 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- This book is an ethnographically rich, methodically innovative, theoretically important, and counterintuitive study of Filipinas, Chinese women, and U.S. men who meet and correspond through the mail or the Internet in hopes of meeting a suitable marriage partner.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520237056
- 0520238702
- OCLC:
- 50920728
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