Love and Globalization: Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World Book

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction: Cross-Cultural Reflections on an Intimate Intersection   Mark B. Padilla   Jennifer S. Hirsch   Miguel Munoz-Laboy   Robert E. Sember   Richard G. Parker     ix
Love and Inequality
Neoliberalism and the Marriage of Reputation and Respectability: Entrepreneurship and the Barbadian Middle Class   Carla Freeman     3
Tourism and Tigueraje: The Structures of Love and Silence among Dominican Male Sex Workers   Mark B. Padilla     38
"If there is no feeling...": The Dilemma between Silence and Coming Out in a Working-Class Butch/Femme Community in Jakarta   Saskia E. Wieringa     70
Love, Sex, and the Social Organization of Intimacy
"Love Makes a Family": Globalization, Companionate Marriage, and the Modernization of Gender Inequality   Jennifer S. Hirsch     93
The Strange Marriage of Love and Interest: Economic Change and Emotional Intimacy in Northeast Brazil, Private and Public   L. A. Rebhun     107
A Fluid Mechanics of Erotas and Aghape: Family Planning and Maternal Consumption in Contemporary Greece   Heather Paxson     120
Loving Your Infertile Muslim Spouse: Notes on the Globalization of IVF and Its Romantic Commitments in Sunni Egypt and Shia Lebanon   Marcia C. Inhorn     139
Fantasy, Image, and the Commerce ofIntimacy
Playcouples in Paradise: Touristic Sexuality and Lifestyle Travel   Katherine Frank     163
Buying and Selling the "Girlfriend Experience": The Social and Subjective Contours of Market Intimacy   Elizabeth Bernstein     186
Love Work in a Tourist Town: Dominican Sex Workers and Resort Workers Perform at Love   Denise Brennan     203
Romancing the Club: love Dynamics between Filipina Entertainers and GIs in U.S. Military Camp Towns in South Korea   Sealing Cheng     226
Love at First Site? Visual Images and Virtual Encounters with Bodies   Nicole Constable     252
Contributors     271