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Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and “Mail Order” Marriages
Nicole Constable
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Paperback. By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade. Attentive to the structural, cultural, and personal factors that prompt women and men to seek marriage partners abroad, this book questions the dichotomies so frequently drawn between structure and agency, and between global and local levels of analysis. Num Pages: 293 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSL; JHBK; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422. Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and "Mail Order" Marriages. 293 pages. By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade. Attentive to the structural, cultural, and personal factors that prompt women and men to seek marriage partners abroad, this book questions the dichotomies so frequently drawn between structure and agency, and between global and local levels of analysis. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSL; JHBK; JHMP. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 20. Weight: 422.
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 Stage" looks at the intimate realities of Filipinos, Chinese women, and U.S. men corresponding in hopes ... Read more
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 Stage" looks at the intimate realities of Filipinos, Chinese women, and U.S. men corresponding in hopes ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
293
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
422g
Number of Pages
293
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520238701
SKU
V9780520238701
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About Nicole Constable
Nicole Constable is Professor of Anthropology and Research Professor at the University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh. She is the editor of Guest People (1996) and author of Maid to Order in Hong Kong (1997), and Christian Souls and Chinese Spirits (California, 1994).
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