Love and globalization
Subtitle: transformations of intimacy in the contemporary world
By: Mark B. Padilla ... [et al.]
Contributors: Padilla, Mark, 1969-
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Nashville, Tenn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780826515841; 9780826515858
Subjects: Intimacy (Psychology) -- Cross-cultural studies; Sex -- Cross-cultural studies; Love -- Cross-cultural studies; Interpersonal relations -- Cross-cultural studies; Globalization -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Introduction: cross-cultural reflections on an intimate intersection / Mark B. Padilla ... [et al.]; title: Neo-liberalism and the marriage of reputation and respectability: entrepreneurship and the Barbadian middle class / Carla Freeman; title: Tourism and tigueraje : the structures of love and silence among Dominican male sex workers / Mark B. Padilla; title: "If there is no feeling; title: " : the dilemma between silence and coming out in a working-class butch/femme community in Jakarta / Saskia E. Wieringa; title: "Love makes a family" : globalization, companionate marriage, and the modernization of gender inequality / Jennifer S. Hirsch; title: The strange marriage of love and interest : economic change and emotional intimacy in northeast Brazil, private and public / L.A. Rebhun; title: A fluid mechanics of erotas and aghape : family planning and maternal consumption in contemporary Greece / Heather Paxson; title: Loving your infertile Muslim spouse : notes on the globalization of IVF and its romantic commitments in Sunni Egypt and Shia Lebanon / Marcia C. Inhorn; title: Playcouples in paradise : touristic sexuality and lifestyle travel / Katherine Frank; title: Buying and selling the "girlfriend experience" : the social and subjective contours of market intimacy / Elizabeth Bernstein; title: Love work in a tourist town : Dominican sex workers and resort workers perform at love / Denise Brennan; title: Romancing the club : love dynamics between Filipina entertainers and GIs in U.S. military camp towns in South Korea / Sealing Cheng; title: Love at first sight? : visual images and virtual encounters with bodies / Nicole Constable