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The Resource Distant love, by Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

Distant love, by Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

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Love and family life in the global age: grandparents in Salonika and their grandson in London speak together every evening via Skype. A U.S. citizen and her Swiss husband fret over large telephone bills and high travel costs. A European couple can finally have a baby with the help of an Indian surrogate mother
Language
eng
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vii, 216 pages ; 28 cm.
Contents
  • Globalization of Love and Intimacy: The Rise of World Families
  • Countries, One Couple: Tales of Mutual Understanding and Misunderstanding
  • Love Has Two Enemies: Distance and Closeness
  • Cosmopolitan Communities of Fate
  • Intimate Migrations: Women Marrying for a Better Life
  • Love Displaced: Migrant Mothers
  • Male Hegemony in Decline? Why Women Gain Power in World Families
  • Transnational Family Networks: Winners of Globalization?
  • My Mother Was a Spanish Ovum: Baby Tourism and Global Patchwork Families
  • Thee Intimate is Global: The Model of Distant Love
  • Are World Families Pioneers of Cosmopolitanism? In their new book, Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim investigate all types of long-distance relationships, marriages and families that stretch across countries, continents and cultures. These long-distance relationships comprise so many different forms of what they call 'world families', by which they mean love and intimate relationships between individuals living in, or coming from, different countries or continents. In all their various forms these world families share one feature in common: they are the focal point in which different aspects of the globalized world become embodied in the personal lives of individuals. Whether they like it or not, lovers and relatives in these families find themselves confronting the world in the inner space of their own lives. The conflicts between the developed and developing worlds come to the surface in world families - they acquire faces and names, creating confusion, surprise, anger, joy, pleasure and pain at the heart of everyday life.
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9780745661810
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Distant love
Title
Distant love
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by Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
Creator
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Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
Love and family life in the global age: grandparents in Salonika and their grandson in London speak together every evening via Skype. A U.S. citizen and her Swiss husband fret over large telephone bills and high travel costs. A European couple can finally have a baby with the help of an Indian surrogate mother
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UKMGB
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1944-2015
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Beck, Ulrich
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no index present
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non fiction
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1946-
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Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth
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  • Families
  • Families and relationships
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Distant love, by Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
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Contents
Globalization of Love and Intimacy: The Rise of World Families -- Countries, One Couple: Tales of Mutual Understanding and Misunderstanding -- Love Has Two Enemies: Distance and Closeness -- Cosmopolitan Communities of Fate -- Intimate Migrations: Women Marrying for a Better Life -- Love Displaced: Migrant Mothers -- Male Hegemony in Decline? Why Women Gain Power in World Families -- Transnational Family Networks: Winners of Globalization? -- My Mother Was a Spanish Ovum: Baby Tourism and Global Patchwork Families -- Thee Intimate is Global: The Model of Distant Love -- Are World Families Pioneers of Cosmopolitanism? In their new book, Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim investigate all types of long-distance relationships, marriages and families that stretch across countries, continents and cultures. These long-distance relationships comprise so many different forms of what they call 'world families', by which they mean love and intimate relationships between individuals living in, or coming from, different countries or continents. In all their various forms these world families share one feature in common: they are the focal point in which different aspects of the globalized world become embodied in the personal lives of individuals. Whether they like it or not, lovers and relatives in these families find themselves confronting the world in the inner space of their own lives. The conflicts between the developed and developing worlds come to the surface in world families - they acquire faces and names, creating confusion, surprise, anger, joy, pleasure and pain at the heart of everyday life. -- Provided by publisher
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FIEb17456964
Extent
vii, 216 pages ; 28 cm.
Isbn
9780745661810
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unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
System control number
(OCoLC)969848190
Label
Distant love, by Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Content category
text
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Contents
Globalization of Love and Intimacy: The Rise of World Families -- Countries, One Couple: Tales of Mutual Understanding and Misunderstanding -- Love Has Two Enemies: Distance and Closeness -- Cosmopolitan Communities of Fate -- Intimate Migrations: Women Marrying for a Better Life -- Love Displaced: Migrant Mothers -- Male Hegemony in Decline? Why Women Gain Power in World Families -- Transnational Family Networks: Winners of Globalization? -- My Mother Was a Spanish Ovum: Baby Tourism and Global Patchwork Families -- Thee Intimate is Global: The Model of Distant Love -- Are World Families Pioneers of Cosmopolitanism? In their new book, Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim investigate all types of long-distance relationships, marriages and families that stretch across countries, continents and cultures. These long-distance relationships comprise so many different forms of what they call 'world families', by which they mean love and intimate relationships between individuals living in, or coming from, different countries or continents. In all their various forms these world families share one feature in common: they are the focal point in which different aspects of the globalized world become embodied in the personal lives of individuals. Whether they like it or not, lovers and relatives in these families find themselves confronting the world in the inner space of their own lives. The conflicts between the developed and developing worlds come to the surface in world families - they acquire faces and names, creating confusion, surprise, anger, joy, pleasure and pain at the heart of everyday life. -- Provided by publisher
Control code
FIEb17456964
Extent
vii, 216 pages ; 28 cm.
Isbn
9780745661810
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
System control number
(OCoLC)969848190

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