Love and Globalization
Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World
1st Edition
Published on 25. January 2008
304 pages
978-0-8265-9238-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Mark B. Padilla | Jennifer S. Hirsch | Miguel Munoz-Laboy
Love and Globalization
Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World
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01/2008
Vanderbilt University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Cross-Cultural Reflections on an Intimate Intersection
- Part I. Love and Inequality
- 1. Neoliberalism and the Marriage of Reputation and Respectability
- 2. Tourism and Tigueraje
- 3. "If there is no feeling. .."
- Part II. Love, Sex, and the Social Organization of Intimacy
- 4. "Love Makes a Family"
- 5. The Strange Marriage of Love and Interest
- 6. A Fluid Mechanics of Erotas and Aghape
- 7. Loving Your Infertile Muslim Spouse
- Part III. Fantasy, Image, and the Commerce of Intimacy
- 8. Playcouples in Paradise
- 9. Buying and Selling the "Girlfriend Experience"
- 10. Love Work in a Tourist Town
- 11. Romancing the Club
- 12. Love at First Site?
- Contributors
