Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship Across the Americas

by Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer

Book Overview

The spread of the Internet is remaking marriage markets, altering the process of courtship and the geographic trajectory of intimacy in the 21st century. For some Latin American women and U.S. men, the advent of the cybermarriage industry offers new opportunities for re-making themselves and their futures, overthrowing the common narrative of trafficking and exploitation.

In this engaging, stimulating virtual ethnography, Felicity Amaya...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814759475
• ISBN13: 9780814759479
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"