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

Abstract

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