Love and Intimacy in Online Cross-Cultural Relationships The Power of Imagination
This book challenges assumptions about the motivations that drive women from relatively poor, developing countries to use intermarriage dating sites to find partners from relatively wealthy, developed countries. It is generally assumed that economic deprivation or economic opportunities are the main...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2016, 2016
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016 |
| Series: | Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Motivations behind decisions to pursue cross-cultural relationship online
- 3. Marketing and love: representations of Thai women in the intermarriage market
- 4. Why him?: becoming online daters
- 5. The movement from online to offline relationships
- 6. Love and commitment across distance
- 7. Conclusion.