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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Padilla, Mark, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intimacy (Psychology)--Cross-cultural studies.

Intimacy (Psychology).

Sex--Cross-cultural studies.

Sex.

Love--Cross-cultural studies.

Love.

Interpersonal relations--Cross-cultural studies.

Interpersonal relations.

Globalization--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies.

Globalization.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Love & globalization

Place of Publication:

Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, 2007.

Summary:

How does globalization influence our intimate experiences? Discussions of globalization usually focus on political, economic, and technological transformations, but fail to recognize how we experience these processes in our daily lives, including our most intimate acts and practices. In this volume, anthropologists and sociologists draw on long-term ethnographic research on love, gender, and sexuality in a broad range of regions to discuss how global forces shape marriage, commercial sex, the political economy of intimacy, and lesbian and gay expressions of companionship.

The richly-textured ethnographies provoke a series of questions about emerging vocabularies for friendship and romance; the adoption of cultural forms from faraway places; the emergence of new desires, pleasures, and emotions that circulate as commodities in the global marketplace; and the ways economic processes shape public and private expressions of sexual intimacy.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780826515841

0826515843

9780826515858

0826515851

OCLC:

144547707