Love and Globalization

by Padilla, Mark B.; Hirsch, Jennifer S.; Munoz-laboy, Miguel; Sember, Robert E.; Parker, Richard G.

• ISBN13: 9780826515841
• ISBN10: 0826515843
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-30
• Publisher: Vanderbilt Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Cross-Cultural Reflections on an Intimate Intersection	p. ix
Love and Inequality
Neoliberalism and the Marriage of Reputation and Respectability: Entrepreneurship and the Barbadian Middle Class	p. 3
Tourism and Tigueraje: The Structures of Love and Silence among Dominican Male Sex Workers	p. 38
"If there is no feeling...": The Dilemma between Silence and Coming Out in a Working-Class Butch/Femme Community in Jakarta	p. 70
Love, Sex, and the Social Organization of Intimacy
"Love Makes a Family": Globalization, Companionate Marriage, and the Modernization of Gender Inequality	p. 93
The Strange Marriage of Love and Interest: Economic Change and Emotional Intimacy in Northeast Brazil, Private and Public	p. 107
A Fluid Mechanics of Erotas and Aghape: Family Planning and Maternal Consumption in Contemporary Greece	p. 120
Loving Your Infertile Muslim Spouse: Notes on the Globalization of IVF and Its Romantic Commitments in Sunni Egypt and Shia Lebanon	p. 139
Fantasy, Image, and the Commerce of Intimacy
Playcouples in Paradise: Touristic Sexuality and Lifestyle Travel	p. 163
Buying and Selling the "Girlfriend Experience": The Social and Subjective Contours of Market Intimacy	p. 186
Love Work in a Tourist Town: Dominican Sex Workers and Resort Workers Perform at Love	p. 203
Romancing the Club: Love Dynamics between Filipina Entertainers and Gls in U.S. Military Camp Towns in South Korea	p. 226
Love at First Site? Visual Images and Virtual Encounters with Bodies	p. 252
Contributors	p. 271
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