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Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and “Mail Order” Marriages

2003 the Regents of the University of California ;ISBN: 9780520237056 ;ISBN: 0520237056 ;ISBN: 0520238702 ;ISBN: 9780520238701 ;EISBN: 0520937228 ;EISBN: 9780520937222 ;OCLC: 70661721 ;LCCallNum: HQ1032.C65 2003

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  • Title:
    Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and “Mail Order” Marriages
  • Author: Constable, Nicole
  • Subjects: Anthropology ; Arranged marriage ; Asians ; Correspondence ; Ethnography ; Friendship ; Intercountry marriage ; International correspondence ; Internet ; Love ; Mail order brides ; Marriage ; Marriage brokerage ; Social aspects ; Social relations ; U.S.A ; United States ; Wives
  • Description: 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 Stagelooks 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 Stagequestions the dichotomies so frequently drawn between structure and agency, and between global and local levels of analysis.
  • Publisher: Berkeley: University of California Press
  • Creation Date: 2003
  • Format: 293
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780520237056
    ISBN: 0520237056
    ISBN: 0520238702
    ISBN: 9780520238701
    EISBN: 0520937228
    EISBN: 9780520937222
    OCLC: 70661721
    LCCallNum: HQ1032.C65 2003
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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