Romance on a global stage : pen pals, virtual ethnography, and "mail-order" marriages / Nicole Constable.
Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.Description: x, 283 p. : 24 cmISBN:- 0520237056 (alk. paper)
- 0520238702 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 306.84/5 21
- HQ1032 .C65 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-274) and index.
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.