Distant love : personal life in the global age / Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim ; translated by Rodney Livingstone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beck, Ulrich, 1944-2015.

Contributor:

Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth, 1946-

Livingstone, Rodney.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England ; Malden, Massachusetts : Polity, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In their new book, Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim investigate long-distance relationships, marriages and families that stretch across countries, continents and cultures. In all their various forms these 'world families' share one feature in common: they are the focal point in which different aspects of the globalized world become embodied in the personal lives of individuals. Lovers and relatives find themselves confronting the world in the inner space of their own lives. The conflicts between the developed and developing worlds come to the surface in world families - they acquire faces and names, creating confusion, surprise, anger, joy, pleasure and pain at the heart of everyday life. This path-breaking book will appeal to a wide readership interested in the changing character of love in our times. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Globalization of Love and Intimacy: The Rise of World Families 4

2 Two Countries, One Couple: Tales of Mutual Understanding and Misunderstanding 20

3 Love Has Two Enemies: Distance and Closeness 44

4 Cosmopolitan Communities of Fate 67

5 Intimate Migrations: Women Marrying for a Better Life 77

6 Love Displaced: Migrant Mothers 103

7 Male Hegemony in Decline? Why Women Gain Power in World Families 123

8 Transnational Family Networks: Winners of Globalization? 138

9 My Mother Was a Spanish Ovum: Baby Tourism and Global Patchwork Families 144

10 The Intimate is Global: The Model of Distant Love 166

11 Are World Families Pioneers of Cosmopolitanism? 183.

Notes:

"First published in German as Fernliebe, 2011"--T. p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 25, 2014).

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

Print version: Beck, Ulrich. Distant love : personal life in the global age.

ISBN:

9780745679921

OCLC:

874148269

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.