Romance on a Global Stage

Romance on a Global Stage
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 295
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ISBN-10 : 9780520937222
ISBN-13 : 0520937228
Rating : 4/5 (228 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Romance on a Global Stage by : Nicole Constable

Download or read book Romance on a Global Stage written by Nicole Constable and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-09-18 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Filipinas, 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.


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