"Nicole Constable has produced a splendid sequel to her
much-praised "Maid to Order in Hong Kong. Constable's sensitive
ethnography and her international scope insures that we see every
Filipino and Chinese woman as a thinking, feeling person, and every
American man who is her pen pal and sometimes future husband as far
more than a mere cartoon character. "Romance on a Global Stage
wonderfully complicates the genderings and globalizings of power
and emotions."--Cynthia Enloe, author of "Bananas, Beaches and
Bases
"The rise of feminism in North America has been paralleled by a
growth in marriages between Western men and women from the global
periphery. Constable's fascinating study explores the multiple
desires at work, revealing the anti-feminist reason and feminist
surprises in these global romances."--Aihwa Ong, author of "Buddha
Is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America
"Constable adds a new map to the cartographies of desire in this
nuanced and fresh account of 'mail-order marriage.' Her original
work carefully attends to emotion, sex, and political economy,
offering a complex account of gender, marriage, and
globalization."--Carole S. Vance, author of "Pleasure and Danger:
Exploring Female Sexuality
"This innovative and compassionate work maps new formations of
desire in the context of globalization. Constable breaks through
the stereotypes about transnational pen-pal marriages to enable us
to see, in an ethnographically detailed way, how agency and desire
are shaped by uneven economic development and how
cyber-technologies figure in the production of new global
imaginaries."--Ann Anagnost, author of "National Past-times:
Narrative, Representation, and Power inModern China
"Constable is a talented and perceptive anthropologist who has
mastered the use of the web both as a research tool and a topic of
research. Her sensible and timely examination of transnational
marriages of American men with women from the Philippines and China
relentlessly debunks commonly-held tales about submissive (or
manipulative) Asian women and wealthy (or abusive) American
men."--Jean-Paul Dumont, author of "Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic
Traces of a Philippine Island
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