Planet-Love.com: Cyberbrides in the Americas and the Transnational Routes of U.S. Masculinity.

The article focuses on cyberbrides in the Americas and the transnational routes of U.S. masculinity. The design of a Latin Ameican woman from outside the U.S. speaks to the power of erotic imagination and the role of technology in transporting one's personal fantasies into a transnational social for...

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Publicado en:Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 331 - 357
Autor principal: Schaeffer-Grabiel, Felicity
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Chicago Press Winter2006
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Sumario:The article focuses on cyberbrides in the Americas and the transnational routes of U.S. masculinity. The design of a Latin Ameican woman from outside the U.S. speaks to the power of erotic imagination and the role of technology in transporting one's personal fantasies into a transnational social forum. The self-help model of individual transformations hijacks the feminist model of consciousness-raising, evacuating its radical potential through personalizing social transformation, and makes evident self-help's genealogical roots within Christianity and Western individualism.