TY - BOOK AU - Constable,Nicole ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Romance on a global stage: pen pals, virtual ethnography, and "mail-order" marriages AV - HQ1032 .C65 2003eb U1 - 306.84/5 21 PY - 2003/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Intercountry marriage KW - United States KW - Marriage brokerage KW - Mail order brides KW - Asians KW - International correspondence KW - Social aspects KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10057125 ER -