Romance on a global stage : pen pals, virtual ethnography, and "mail-order" marriages / Nicole Constable.
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TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003Description: x, 283 p. : 23 cmISBN: 0520237056 (alk. paper); 0520238702 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Intercountry marriage -- United States | Marriage brokerage -- United States | Mail order brides -- United States | Asians -- United States | International correspondence -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 306.84/5 LOC classification: HQ1032 | .C65 2003Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Table of contents | Publisher description | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-274) and index.
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.
"By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the international email - order marriage trade. Combining extensive Internet ethnography and face-to-face fieldwork, this book looks at the intimate realities of Filipinas, Chinese women, and U.S. men corresponding in hopes of finding a suitable marriage partner". -- Cover.
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