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Distant Love: Personal Life in the Global Age

By Ulrich Beck; Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim; Rodney Livingstone

Book information

Publisher
Polity Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780745661803, 9780745661810, 9780745679945, 9780745679938
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1102560 bytes)
Pages
\190
Time added
2021-06-28 15:38:47

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Title page Copyright page Translator's Note Introduction 1: Globalization of Love and Intimacy: The Rise of World Families 1 Comedies and Tragedies of Distant Love 2 The Landscape of World Families 3 World Families Turn Established Notions Upside Down 4 Towards a Definition of ‘World Families’ 2: Two Countries, One Couple: Tales of Mutual Understanding and Misunderstanding 1 Do ‘Mixed Relationships’ Differ from Others? 2 Lives in Transition 3 Decoding Intercultural Differences 4 Rediscovering the Roots 3: Love Has Two Enemies: Distance and Closeness 1 The Social Anatomy of Distant Love 2 Lost in Translation 3 Love, Marriage and Happiness: Multiplied, Divided, Inverted and Recombined 4: Cosmopolitan Communities of Fate 1 Fresh Kidneys, or Global Inequality Embodied 2 The Power of Capital 3 Outsourcing Jobs 4 Competing World Religions 5 Climate Change: A Threat to Humanity 6 Risk Communities as Imagined Communities 7 The Cosmopolitanization of Everyday Life 5: Intimate Migrations: Women Marrying for a Better Life 1 Dreams of Migration Versus Barriers to Migration 2 Border Artists 3 Commercial Matchmaking 4 Matchmaking Via Transnational Family Networks 5 Tragic Stories: Migrants as Victims 6 More Tragic Stories: Migrants as Perpetrators 7 What Future? 6: Love Displaced: Migrant Mothers 1 A New Wave of Economic Migration 2 Living in the Shadows 3 Broken Care Chains 4 Motherly Love and Other Emotions 5 Asymmetrical Gains 7: Male Hegemony in Decline? Why Women Gain Power in World Families 1 Geographies of Migration 2 Strategies for Choosing a Partner 3 Different Horizons 4 Loss and Gain 8: Transnational Family Networks: Winners of Globalization? 1 Are Transnational Family Enterprises Anachronistic? 2 The Relationship between the Individual, the Family and the State 3 What Binds World Families Together? 4 Relation to Democracy 9: My Mother Was a Spanish Ovum: Baby Tourism and Global Patchwork Families 1 Wanting a Child and Medical Technology 2 Moral Issues: Contested Territory 3 A New Diversity of Life Patterns 4 Children as ‘Commodities’ 5 Designing Confidence 6 The Global Patchwork Family 10: The Intimate is Global: The Model of Distant Love 1 The Distant Other is in the Midst of Our Family 2 Cross-Border Communication 3 Global Inequality Acquires Names and Faces 4 Beyond National Law 5 Your Families, Our Families: Clashing Ideals 11: Are World Families Pioneers of Cosmopolitanism? 1 Children of Postmodernity? 2 The Multiple Memory 3 Postscript from the Future: the Two Commissions on Love References and Bibliography Index

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