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There have always been mail-order brides in America--but we haven't always thought about them in the same ways. In Buying a Bride, Marcia A. Zug starts with the so-called "Tobacco Wives" of the Jamestown colony and moves all the way forward to today's modern same-sex mail-order grooms to explore the advantages and disadvantages of mail-order marriage. It's a history of deception, physical abuse, and failed unions. It's also the story of how mail-order marriage can offer women surprising and empowering opportunities. Drawing on a forgotten trove of colorful mail-order marriage court cases, Zug explores the many troubling legal issues that arise in mail-order marriage: domestic abuse and murder, breach of contract, fraud (especially relating to immigration), and human trafficking and prostitution. She tells the story of how mail-order marriage lost the benign reputation it enjoyed in the Civil War era to become more and more reviled over time, and she argues compellingly that it does not entirely deserve its current reputation. While it is a common misperception that women turn to mail-order marriage as a desperate last resort, most mail-order brides are enticed rather than coerced. Since the first mail-order brides arrived on American shores in 1619, mail-order marriage has enabled women to improve both their marital prospects and their legal, political, and social freedoms. Buying A Bride uncovers this history and shows us how mail-order marriage empowers women and should be protected and even encouraged.

Mail order brides --- Marriage brokerage --- Marriage --- 392.4/.5 <73> "19" --- Married life --- Matrimony --- Nuptiality --- Wedlock --- Love --- Sacraments --- Betrothal --- Courtship --- Families --- Home --- Honeymoons --- Brokage, Marriage --- Brokerage, Marriage --- Brokers, Marriage --- Arranged marriage --- Mate selection --- Picture brides --- Brides --- Foreign spouses --- History. --- Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA--20ste eeuw --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- History of North America --- Family & Marriage --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- History --- LAW / Family Law / Marriage.

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Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers, edited by Alena Amato Ruggerio, explores how television, film, the internet, and other media variously perpetuate gender stereotypes. The contributors to this volume bring a variety of feminist rhetorical and media criticism approaches from across the communication discipline to their analyses of how media shape our expectations of the performance of women's domestic roles.

Women in mass media. --- Sex role in mass media. --- Brides. --- Wives. --- Mothers. --- Moms --- Parents --- Women --- Housewives --- Motherhood --- Pregnant women --- Spouses --- Married women --- Single women --- Wives --- Mass media --- 305 --- Women in mass media --- Sex role in mass media --- Brides --- Mothers --- 305 Genderstudies. Rol van de sekse. Gender. Personen vanuit interdisciplinair gezichtspunt --- Genderstudies. Rol van de sekse. Gender. Personen vanuit interdisciplinair gezichtspunt

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This groundbreaking study explores the recent dramatic changes brought about in Japan by the influx of a non-Japanese population, Filipina brides. Lieba Faier investigates how Filipina women who emigrated to rural Japan to work in hostess bars-where initially they were widely disparaged as prostitutes and foreigners-came to be identified by the local residents as "ideal, traditional Japanese brides."Intimate Encounters, an ethnography of cultural encounters, unravels this paradox by examining the everyday relational dynamics that drive these interactions. Faier remaps Japan, the Philippines, and the United States into what she terms a "zone of encounters," showing how the meanings of Filipino and Japanese culture and identity are transformed and how these changes are accomplished through ordinary interpersonal exchanges. Intimate Encounters provides an insightful new perspective from which to reconsider national subjectivities amid the increasing pressures of globalization, thereby broadening and deepening our understanding of the larger issues of migration and disapora.

Women --- Women household employees --- Women foreign workers --- Foreign workers, Philippine --- Social conditions. --- History. --- cultural encounters. --- cultural production. --- cultural studies. --- diaspora. --- emigration and immigration. --- ethnography. --- figures of desire. --- filipina brides. --- filipina women. --- filipino culture. --- gender studies. --- geography. --- globalization. --- home. --- hostess bars. --- interpersonal exchanges. --- japan. --- kinship. --- kiso valley. --- migration. --- national subjectivity. --- non japanese population. --- prostitutes. --- prostitutions. --- rural japan. --- the philippines. --- traditional japanese brides. --- united states of america. --- zone of encounters.

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Were it simply a collection of fascinating, previously unpublished folktales, Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales would merit praise and attention because of its cultural rather than political approach to Palestinian studies. But it is much more than this. By combining their respective expertise in English literature and anthropology, Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana bring to these tales an integral method of study that unites a sensitivity to language with a deep appreciation for culture. As native Palestinians, the authors are well-suited to their task. Over the course of several years they collected tales in the regions of the Galilee, Gaza, and the West Bank, determining which were the most widely known and appreciated and selecting the ones that best represented the Palestinian Arab folk narrative tradition. Great care has been taken with the translations to maintain the original flavor, humor, and cultural nuances of tales that are at once earthy and whimsical. The authors have also provided footnotes, an international typology, a comprehensive motif index, and a thorough analytic guide to parallel tales in the larger Arab tradition in folk narrative. Speak, Bird, Speak Again is an essential guide to Palestinian culture and a must for those who want to deepen their understanding of a troubled, enduring people.

Folk literature, Arabic. --- Folk literature, Arabic - Palestine - Translations into English. --- Folklore. --- Palestine. --- Palestinian Arabs. --- Palestinian Arabs - Folklore. --- Tales. --- Tales-- Palestine. --- Tales --- Palestinian Arabs --- Folk literature, Arabic --- Folklore --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Arabic folk literature --- Folk tales --- Folktales --- Arabic literature --- Folk literature --- anthropology. --- arab. --- arabs. --- bridegrooms. --- brides. --- courtship. --- creation myths. --- environment. --- fairy tales. --- fiction. --- folk narrative. --- folklore. --- folktales. --- galilee. --- gaza. --- gender. --- husbands and wives. --- islam. --- love. --- middle east literature. --- middle east. --- motif index. --- mythology. --- nature. --- nonfiction. --- oral tradition. --- palestine. --- palestinian arab. --- palestinian culture. --- palestinian folktales. --- palestinian studies. --- parenting. --- romance. --- sexuality. --- social science. --- storytelling. --- typology. --- west bank.

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Our Voices, Our Histories' brings together thirty-five Asian American and Pacific Islander authors in a single volume to explore the historical experiences, perspectives, and actions of Asian American and Pacific Islander women in the United States and beyond. 0This volume is unique in exploring Asian American and Pacific Islander women's lives along local, transnational, and global dimensions. The contributions present new research on diverse aspects of Asian American and Pacific Islander women's history, from the politics of language, to the role of food, to experiences as adoptees, mixed race, and second generation, while acknowledging shared experiences as women of color in the United States. 0'Our Voices, Our Histories' showcases how new approaches in US history, Asian American and Pacific Islander studies, and Women's and Gender studies inform research on Asian American and Pacific Islander women. Attending to the collective voices of the women themselves, the volume seeks to transform current understandings of Asian American and Pacific Islander women's histories.

Asian American women --- Pacific Islander American women --- History. --- Social conditions. --- 1.5 generation. --- 1982 New York City’s garment workers’ strike. --- Adoptees. --- Angel Island Immigration Station Chinese Exclusion Act (1882). --- Asian American dance. --- Asian Americans in the U.S. South. --- Asian Migration. --- Assimilation. --- Chinatown Night Clubs. --- Chinese immigrant women. --- Chinese missions in the U.S. South. --- Civil Liberties Act of 1988. --- Coolie. --- Creation Narratives. --- Dancie Yett Wong. --- Diversity. --- Ethnic Groups. --- Filipino. --- Gender. --- Gentlemen’s Agreement (1907) Global. --- Global Dimensions. --- Hawai`i. --- Hawaiian Chiefesses. --- Hawaiian Culture. --- Hawaiian Diaspora. --- Hawaiian Well-being. --- Hawaiian goddesses. --- Hawaiian healing. --- Hawaiian monarchy. --- Hawaiian trusts. --- ILGWU. --- Immigration Laws. --- Indigenous Culture. --- Indigenous Island. --- Inez Lung. --- Japanese American. --- Jim Crow. --- Language. --- Mississippi Delta Chinese. --- Muslim ban. --- Native Hawaiian. --- New York City’s garment industry. --- Nisei women. --- Occupation. --- Picture Brides. --- Postwar. --- Refugee. --- Resistance. --- Samoanness. --- Southern Baptist Church in the U.S. South. --- Taiwanese American. --- Transnationalism. --- Transracial. --- U.S. Colonialism. --- U.S. Territory. --- U.S.-Japan relations. --- Ume Tsuda. --- World War II. --- Yona Abiko. --- ancestor. --- anti-Japanese movement. --- cheap labor. --- children’s education. --- class reproduction. --- ethics. --- garment workers. --- global restructuring. --- historical context. --- immigrant. --- immigration law. --- immigration. --- legendary or mythical past. --- life course. --- life history. --- marginalization. --- mass incarceration. --- mixed race identity. --- mixed race. --- non-working class. --- oral history. --- pan-Asian networks. --- precarious labor. --- public assistance. --- refugee camp. --- refugee family. --- refugee stories. --- resettlement. --- stereotypes. --- transnational families. --- transnational ties. --- unskilled laborers. --- wartime. --- woman. --- women’s higher education.