Love and Globalization: Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0826515851 ISBN 13: 9780826515858

Casa editrice: Vanderbilt Univ Pr, 2008

Riassunto

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Vanderbilt Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0826515851
• ISBN 13: 9780826515858
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272
• Redattore: Padilla Mark B., Hirsch Jennifer S., Munoz-laboy Miguel, Sember Robert E., Parker Richard G.