Love and Globalization : Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World

Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Cross-Cultural Reflections on an Intimate Intersection ix Mark B. Padilla Jennifer S. Hirsch Miguel Munoz-Laboy Robert E. Sember Richard G. Parker Part I: Love and Inequality Neoliberalism and the Marriage of Reputation and Respectability: Entrepreneurship and the Barbadian Middle Class 3(35) Carla Freeman Tourism and Tigueraje: The Structures of Love and Silence among Dominican Male Sex Workers 38(32) Mark B. Padill ``If there is no feeling'': The Dilemma between Silence and Coming Out in a Working-Class Butch/Femme Community in Jakarta 70(23) Saskia E. Wieringa Part II. Love, Sex, and the Social Organization of Intimacy ``Love Makes a Family'': Globalization, Companionate Marriage, and the Modernization of Gender Inequality 93(14) Jennifer S. Hirsch The Strange Marriage of Love and Interest: Economic Change and Emotional Intimacy in Northeast Brazil, Private and Public 107(13) L. A. Rebhun A Fluid Mechanics of Erotas and Aghape: Family Planning and Maternal Consumption in Contemporary Greece 120(19) Heather Paxson Loving Your Infertile Muslim Spouse: Notes on the Globalization of IVF and Its Romantic Commitments in Sunni Egypt and Shia Lebanon 139(24) Marcia C. Inborn Part III: Fantasy, Image, and the Commerce of Intimacy Playcouples in Paradise: Touristic Sexuality and Lifestyle Travel 163(23) Katherine Frank Buying and Selling the ``Girlfriend Experience'': The Social and Subjective Contours of Market Intimacy 186(17) Elizabeth Bernstein Love Work in a Tourist Town: Dominican Sex Workers and Resort Workers Perform at Love 203(23) Denise Brennan Romancing the Club: Love Dynamics between Filipina Entertainers and Gls in U.S. Military Camp Towns in South Korea 226(26) Sealing Cheng Love at First Site? Visual Images and Virtual Encounters with Bodies 252(19) Nicole Constable Contributors 271