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Nation of Nations Ser.: Love and Empire : Cybermarriage and Citizenship Across the Americas by Felicity Amaya Schaeffer (2012, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNew York University Press
ISBN-100814759475
ISBN-139780814759479
eBay Product ID (ePID)114030876
Product Key Features
Number of Pages240 Pages
Publication NameLove and Empire : Cybermarriage and Citizenship Across the Americas
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAnthropology / Cultural & Social, Civics & Citizenship, Anthropology / General, Dating, Sociology / Marriage & Family
Publication Year2012
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaFamily & Relationships, Political Science, Social Science
AuthorFelicity Amaya Schaeffer
SeriesNation of Nations Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight12.4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2012-024881
Reviews"A brilliant and compelling study of the cybermarriage industry. With grace and elegance, Schaeffer provides a new way of thinking." -Rosa-Linda Fregoso,University of California, Santa Cruz, "This book is a helpful contribution to our understanding about the cybermarriage industry."- INTAMS Review, "A brilliant and compelling study of the cybermarriage industry.With grace and elegance, Schaeffer provides a new way of thinking."-Rosa-Linda Fregoso,University of California, Santa Cruz, A brilliant and compelling study of the cybermarriage industry. With grace and elegance, Schaeffer provides a new way of thinking.
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume Number11
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal306.84/5097
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction: Intimate Investments 1 Enforcing Romantic Love through Immigration Law 2 Conversions of the Self: Mexican Women's Turn from the National to the Foreign 3 Outsourcing the American Dream: Transforming Men's Virtual Fantasies into Social Realities 4 Bodies for Export! The Pliable Economy of Beauty and Passion in Colombia 5 Migrant Critique: Love and the Patriot Notes References Index About the Author
SynopsisUnveils a fresh perspective on the continually evolving relationship between the U.S. and Latin America, The spread of the Internet is remaking marriage markets, altering the process of courtship and the geographic trajectory of intimacy in the 21st century. For some Latin American women and U.S. men, the advent of the cybermarriage industry offers new opportunities for re-making themselves and their futures, overthrowing the common narrative of trafficking and exploitation. In this engaging, stimulating virtual ethnography, Felicity Amaya Schaeffer follows couples' romantic interludes at "Vacation Romance Tours," in chat rooms, and interviews married couples in the United States in order to understand the commercialization of intimacy. While attending to the interplay between the everyday and the virtual, Love and Empire contextualizes personal desires within the changing global economic and political shifts across the Americas. By examining current immigration policies and the use of Mexican and Colombian women as erotic icons of the nation in the global marketplace, she forges new relations between intimate imaginaries and state policy in the making of new markets, finding that women's erotic self-fashioning is the form through which women become ideal citizens, of both their home countries and in the United States. Through these little-explored, highly mediated romantic exchanges, Love and Empire unveils a fresh perspective on the continually evolving relationship between the U.S. and Latin America.
LC Classification NumberHQ1031.S277 2012
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