Romance on a global stage : pen pals, virtual ethnography, and "mail-order" marriages / Nicole Constable.
Constable, Nicole.
2003
HQ1032 .C65 2003 (Mapit)
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Romance on a global stage : pen pals, virtual ethnography, and "mail-order" marriages / Nicole Constable.
Author
Constable, Nicole.
ISBN
0520238702 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520237056 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
Language
English
Description
x, 283 p. : 23 cm.
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HQ1032 .C65 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.84/5
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-274) and index.
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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.

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