Love and Globalization - Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World (Hardcover)

Discussions of globalization usually focus on political, economic, and technological transformations, but fail to recognize how we experience these processes in our daily lives, including our most intimate acts and practices. In this volume, anthropologists and sociologists draw on long-term ethnographic research on love, gender, and sexuality in a broad range of regions to discuss how global forces shape marriage, commercial sex, the political economy of intimacy, and lesbian and gay expressions of companionship.

The richly-textured ethnographies provoke a series of questions about emerging vocabularies for friendship and romance; the adoption of cultural forms from faraway places; the emergence of new desires, pleasures, and emotions that circulate as commodities in the global marketplace; and the ways economic processes shape public and private expressions of sexual intimacy.

General

Imprint:	Vanderbilt University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2008
First published:	2008
Editors:	Mark B. Padilla • Jennifer S. Hirsch • Miguel Munoz-Laboy • Robert Sember • Richard G Parker
Dimensions:	183 x 263 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-8265-1584-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Globalization Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN:	0-8265-1584-3
Barcode:	9780826515841

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