Dreaming Of A Mailorder Husband: Russianamerican Internet Romance,New

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In the American media, Russian mailorder brides are often portrayed either as docile victims or as gold diggers in search of money and green cards. Rarely are they allowed to speak for themselves. Until now. In Dreaming of a MailOrder Husband, six Russian women who are in search of or have already found U.S. husbands via listings on the Internet tell their stories. Ericka Johnson, an American researcher of gender and technology, interviewed these women and others. The women, in their twenties and thirties, describe how they placed listings on the Internet and what they think about their contacts with Western men. They discuss their expectations about marriage in the United States and their reasons for wishing to emigrate. Their differing backgrounds, economic situations, and educational levels belie homogeneous characterizations of Russian mailorder brides.Each chapter presents one womans story and then links it to a discussion of gender roles, the mailorder bride industry, and the severe economic and social constraints of life in Russia. The transitional economy has often left people, after a months work, either unpaid or paid unexpectedly with a supply of sunflower oil or toilet paper. Women over twentythree are considered virtually unmarriageable in Russian society. Russia has a large population of women who are single, divorced, or widowed, who would like to be married yet feel that they have no chance finding a Russian husband. Grim realities such as these motivate women to seek better lives abroad. For many of those seeking a mailorder husband, children or parents play significant roles in the search for better lives, and they play a role in Johnsons account as well. In addition to her research in the former Soviet Union, Johnson conducted interviews in the United States, and she shares the insightsabout dating, marriage, and crosscultural communicationof a RussianAmerican married couple who met via the Internet.

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