Love and Globalization Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World

Name: Love and Globalization Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World
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ISBN: 9780826515858

ISBN-10: 0826515851

ISBN-13: 9780826515858

Edition: 2007

Authors: Mark B. Padilla, Jennifer S. Hirsch, Miguel Munoz-Laboy, Robert Sember, Richard G. Parker

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Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Publication date: 1/25/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Cross-Cultural Reflections on an Intimate Intersection




Love and Inequality



Neoliberalism and the Marriage of Reputation and Respectability: Entrepreneurship and the Barbadian Middle Class




Tourism and Tigueraje: The Structures of Love and Silence among Dominican Male Sex Workers




"If there is no feeling...": The Dilemma between Silence and Coming Out in a Working-Class Butch/Femme Community in Jakarta




Love, Sex, and the Social Organization of Intimacy



"Love Makes a Family": Globalization, Companionate Marriage, and the Modernization of Gender Inequality




The Strange Marriage of Love and Interest: Economic Change and Emotional Intimacy in Northeast Brazil, Private and Public




A Fluid Mechanics of Erotas and Aghape: Family Planning and Maternal Consumption in Contemporary Greece




Loving Your Infertile Muslim Spouse: Notes on the Globalization of IVF and Its Romantic Commitments in Sunni Egypt and Shia Lebanon




Fantasy, Image, and the Commerce of Intimacy



Playcouples in Paradise: Touristic Sexuality and Lifestyle Travel




Buying and Selling the "Girlfriend Experience": The Social and Subjective Contours of Market Intimacy




Love Work in a Tourist Town: Dominican Sex Workers and Resort Workers Perform at Love




Romancing the Club: love Dynamics between Filipina Entertainers and GIs in U.S. Military Camp Towns in South Korea




Love at First Site? Visual Images and Virtual Encounters with Bodies



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