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Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Cross-Cultural Reflections on an Intimate Intersection ix Mark B. Padilla, Jennifer S. Hirsch, Miguel Muñoz-Laboy, Robert E. Sember, and Richard G. Parker Part I: Love and Inequality 1 Neoliberalism and the Marriage of Reputation and Respectability: Entrepreneurship and the Barbadian Middle Class 3 Carla Freeman 2 Tourism andTigueraje:The Structures of Love and Silence among Dominican Male SexWorkers 38 Mark B. Padilla 3 “If there is no feeling . . . ”:The Dilemma between Silence and Coming Out in aWorking-Class Butch/Femme Community in Jakarta 70 Saskia E. Wieringa Part II. Love, Sex, and the Social Organization of Intimacy 4 “Love Makes a Family”: Globalization, Companionate Marriage, and the Modernization of Gender Inequality 93 Jennifer S. Hirsch vi 5 The Strange Marriage of Love and Interest: Economic Change and Emotional Intimacy in Northeast Brazil, Private and Public 107 L. A. Rebhun 6 A Fluid Mechanics of Erotas and Aghape: Family Planning and Maternal Consumption in Contemporary Greece 120 Heather Paxson 7 LovingYour Infertile Muslim Spouse: Notes on the Globalization of IVF and Its Romantic Commitments in Sunni Egypt and Shia Lebanon 139 Marcia C. Inhorn Part III: Fantasy, Image, and the Commerce of Intimacy 8 Playcouples in Paradise:Touristic Sexuality and LifestyleTravel 163 Katherine Frank 9 Buying and Selling the“Girlfriend Experience”: The Social and Subjective Contours of Market Intimacy 186 Elizabeth Bernstein 10 LoveWork in aTouristTown: Dominican SexWorkers and ResortWorkers Perform at Love 203 Denise Brennan 11 Romancing the Club: Love Dynamics between Filipina Entertainers and GIs in U.S. Military CampTowns in South Korea 226 Sealing Cheng 12 Love at First Site?Visual Images andVirtual Encounters with Bodies 252 Nicole Constable Contributors 271 ...

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