Love and Empire Cybermarriage and Citizenship Across the Americas

Name: Love and Empire Cybermarriage and Citizenship Across the Americas
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ISBN: 9780814759479

ISBN-10: 0814759475

ISBN-13: 9780814759479

Edition: 2012

Authors: Felicity Amaya Schaeffer

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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…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 12/3/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Intimate Investments



Enforcing Romantic Love through Immigration Law



Conversions of the Self: Mexican Women's Turn from the National to the Foreign



Outsourcing the American Dream: Transforming Men's Virtual Fantasies into Social Realities



Bodies for Export! The Pliable Economy of Beauty and Passion in Colombia



Migrant Critique: Love and the Patriot


Notes


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Index


About the Author