Romance on a global stage : pen pals, virtual ethnography, and "mail-order" marriages / / Nicole Constable.
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| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 284 p. |
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Table of 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 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.