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Dreaming of a Mail-Order Husband - Russian-American Internet Romance (Paperback)
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Dreaming of a Mail-Order Husband - Russian-American Internet Romance (Paperback)
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In the American media, Russian mail-order brides are often
portrayed either as docile victims or as gold diggers in search of
money and green cards. Rarely are they allowed to speak for
themselves. Until now. In Dreaming of a Mail-Order Husband, six
Russian women who are in search of or have already found U.S.
husbands via listings on the Internet tell their stories. Ericka
Johnson, an American researcher of gender and technology,
interviewed these women and others. The women, in their twenties
and thirties, describe how they placed listings on the Internet and
what they think about their contacts with Western men. They discuss
their expectations about marriage in the United States and their
reasons for wishing to emigrate. Their differing backgrounds,
economic situations, and educational levels belie homogeneous
characterizations of Russian mail-order brides.Each chapter
presents one woman's story and then links it to a discussion of
gender roles, the mail-order bride industry, and the severe
economic and social constraints of life in Russia. The transitional
economy has often left people, after a month's work, either unpaid
or paid unexpectedly with a supply of sunflower oil or toilet
paper. Women over twenty-three are considered virtually
unmarriageable in Russian society. Russia has a large population of
women who are single, divorced, or widowed, who would like to be
married yet feel that they have no chance finding a Russian
husband. Grim realities such as these motivate women to seek better
lives abroad. For many of those seeking a mail-order husband,
children or parents play significant roles in the search for better
lives, and they play a role in Johnson's account as well. In
addition to her research in the former Soviet Union, Johnson
conducted interviews in the United States, and she shares the
insights-about dating, marriage, and cross-cultural
communication-of a Russian-American married couple who met via the
Internet.
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