Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (232 S.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Cross-Border Marriages : Gender and Mobility in Transitional Asia
DDC:
306.845095
Keywords:
Anthropology
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Main description: Explores the patterns of marriages of Asian women, including the legendary "mail-order bride."
Abstract:
Biographical note: Nicole Constable, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, is the author of Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography and "Mail Order" Brides, among other works.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""1. Introduction: Cross-Border Marriages, Gendered Mobility, and Global Hypergamy""; ""2. Cross-Border Hypergamy? Marriage Exchanges in a Transnational Hakka Community""; ""3. Cautionary Tales: Marriage Strategies, State Discourse, and Women's Agency in a Naxi Village in Southwestern China""; ""4. Marrying out of Place: Hmong/Miao Women Across and Beyond China""; ""5. Marrying Up and Marrying Down: The Paradoxes of Marital Mobility for Chos˘njok Brides in South Korea""
Description / Table of Contents:
""6. A Failed Attempt at Transnational Marriage: Maternal Citizenship in a Globalizing South Korea""""7. Tripartite Desires: Filipina-Japanese Marriages and Fantasies of Transnational Traversal""; ""8. Clashing Dreams in the Vietnamese Diaspora: Highly Educated Overseas Brides and Low-Wage U.S. Husbands""; ""9. A Tale of Two Marriages: International Matchmaking and Gendered Mobility""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""
Description / Table of Contents:
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Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.9783/9780812200645
