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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.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Making Introductions 2. Ethnography in Imagined Virtual Communities 3. Feminism and Myths of "Mail-Order" Marriages 4. Fairy Tales, Family Values, and the Global Politics of Romance 5. Political Economy and Cultural Logics of Desire 6. Women's Agency and the Gendered Geography of Marriage 7. Tales of Waiting: History, Immigration, and the State 8. Conclusion: Marriage, Migration, and Transnational Families Notes References Cited Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 18/09/2003
      ISBN13: 9780520238701, 978-0520238701
      ISBN10: 0520238702
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      Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Gender studies, gender groups Sociology: family, kinship and relationships

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Making Introductions 2. Ethnography in Imagined Virtual Communities 3. Feminism and Myths of "Mail-Order" Marriages 4. Fairy Tales, Family Values, and the Global Politics of Romance 5. Political Economy and Cultural Logics of Desire 6. Women's Agency and the Gendered Geography of Marriage 7. Tales of Waiting: History, Immigration, and the State 8. Conclusion: Marriage, Migration, and Transnational Families Notes References Cited Index

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