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

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
	©2003

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Description	x, 283 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index.
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.
Subject	Intercountry marriage -- United States.
	Intercountry marriage.
	United States.
	Marriage brokerage -- United States.
	Marriage brokerage.
	Mail order brides -- United States.
	Mail order brides.
	Asians -- United States.
	Asians.
	International correspondence -- Social aspects.
	International correspondence.
	Social aspects.
	Huwelijksbemiddeling.
	Internet.
	Vrouwen.
	Aziaten.
	Mariage interethnique -- États-Unis.
	Agences matrimoniales -- États-Unis.
	Mariage par correspondance -- États-Unis.
	Asiatiques -- États-Unis.
	Correspondance internationale -- États-Unis.
ISBN	0520238702 paperback alkaline paper
	0520237056 alkaline paper
	9780520237056 alkaline paper
	9780520238701 paperback alkaline paper