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Love and Empire - Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the Americas (Hardcover, New)
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Love and Empire - Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the Americas (Hardcover, New)
Series: Nation of Nations
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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 the virtual, Love and Empire
contextualizes personal desires within the changing global economic
and political shifts across the Americas. By examining current
immigration policies and the use of Mexican and Colombian women as
erotic icons of the nation in the global marketplace, she forges
new relations between intimate imaginaries and state policy in the
making of new markets, finding that women's erotic self-fashioning
is the form through which women become ideal citizens, of both
their home countries and in the United States. Through these
little-explored, highly mediated romantic exchanges, Love and
Empire unveils a fresh perspective on the continually evolving
relationship between the U.S. and Latin America.
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