Love and globalization : transformations of intimacy in the contemporary world /
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Nashville, Tenn.:
Vanderbilt University Press,
c2007
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: cross-cultural reflections on an intimate intersection / Mark B. Padilla .. [et al.]
- Neo-liberalism and the marriage of reputation and respectability: entrepreneurship and the Barbadian middle class / Carla Freeman
- Tourism and tigueraje : the structures of love and silence among Dominican male sex workers / Mark B. Padilla
- "If there is no feeling
- " : the dilemma between silence and coming out in a working-class butch/femme community in Jakarta / Saskia E. Wieringa
- "Love makes a family" : globalization, companionate marriage, and the modernization of gender inequality / Jennifer S. Hirsch
- The strange marriage of love and interest : economic change and emotional intimacy in northeast Brazil, private and public / L.A. Rebhun
- A fluid mechanics of erotas and aghape : family planning and maternal consumption in contemporary Greece / Heather Paxson
- Loving your infertile Muslim spouse : notes on the globalization of IVF and its romantic commitments in Sunni Egypt and Shia Lebanon / Marcia C. Inhorn
- Playcouples in paradise : touristic sexuality and lifestyle travel / Katherine Frank
- Buying and selling the "girlfriend experience" : the social and subjective contours of market intimacy / Elizabeth Bernstein
- Love work in a tourist town : Dominican sex workers and resort workers perform at love / Denise Brennan
- Romancing the club : love dynamics between Filipina entertainers and GIs in U.S. military camp towns in South Korea / Sealing Cheng
- Love at first sight? : visual images and virtual encounters with bodies / Nicole Constable.