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Romance on a global stage : pen pals, virtual ethnography, and "mail-order" marriages / Nicole Constable.

By: Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: x, 283 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0520237056 (alk. paper)
  • 0520238702 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.84/5 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ1032 .C65 2003
Online resources:
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 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HQ1032 .C65 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000714617

Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.

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