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By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America had become an example of globalization writ large. This provocative work opens a window onto the complex motivations and experiences of the people behind the stereotypes and misconceptions that have exploded along with the practice of transnational courtship and marriage. Combining extensive Internet ethnography and face-to-face fieldwork, Romance on a Global Stage looks at the intimate realities of Filipinas, Chinese women, and U.S. men corresponding in hopes of finding a suitable marriage partner. Through the experiences of those engaged in pen pal relationships-their stories of love, romance, migration, and long-distance dating-this book conveys the richness and dignity of women's and men's choices without reducing these correspondents to calculating opportunists or naive romantics. Attentive to the structural, cultural, and personal factors that prompt women and men to seek marriage partners abroad, Romance on a Global Stage questions the dichotomies so frequently drawn between structure and agency, and between global and local levels of analysis.

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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.