Distant love: personal life in the global age

Abstract

Translator's Note vii Introduction 1 1 Globalization of Love and Intimacy: The Rise of World Families 4 2 Two Countries, One Couple: Tales of Mutual Understanding and Misunderstanding 20 3 Love Has Two Enemies: Distance and Closeness 44 4 Cosmopolitan Communities of Fate 67 5 Intimate Migrations: Women Marrying for a Better Life 77 6 Love Displaced: Migrant Mothers 103 7 Male Hegemony in Decline? Why Women Gain Power in World Families 123 8 Transnational Family Networks: Winners of Globalization? 138 9 My Mother Was a Spanish Ovum: Baby Tourism and Global Patchwork Families 144 10 The Intimate is Global: The Model of Distant Love 166 11 Are World Families Pioneers of Cosmopolitanism? 183 References and Bibliography 194 Index 208

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