Description: Further DetailsTitle: Romance on a Global StageCondition: NewEAN: 9780520238701ISBN: 9780520238701Publisher: University of California PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/18/2003Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 18mmItem Weight: 408gAuthor: Nicole ConstableLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and “Mail Order” MarriagesISBN-10: 0520238702Description: 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 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 Stage" questions the dichotomies so frequently drawn between structure and agency, and between global and local levels of analysis.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Gender Sex & Relationships, Social SciencesRelease Year: 2003 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Romance on a Global Stage
Title: Romance on a Global Stage
EAN: 9780520238701
ISBN: 9780520238701
Release Date: 09/18/2003
Release Year: 2003
Subtitle: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and “Mail Order” Marriages
ISBN-10: 0520238702
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 293 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Romance on a Global Stage : Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and Mail Order Marriages
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2003
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Subject Area: Social Science
Author: Nicole Constable
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
