Open AccessCapitalizing Mail-Order Brides: American Hegemony and a Return to Pre-Feminism
Author(s) -
Angelina Lee
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
canadian journal of family and youth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1718-9748
DOI - 10.29173/cjfy29762
Subject(s) - capitalism , globalism , hegemony , dominance (genetics) , order (exchange) , feminism , ethnic group , gender studies , sociology , power (physics) , political science , political economy , economics , law , globalization , biochemistry , chemistry , finance , politics , gene , physics , quantum mechanics
Contrary to popular belief, mail-order marriage is not left behind in history. With technological advancement, globalism, and capitalism, mail-order relationships in the modern world have become a capitalist venture through the form of a global marriage market with Internet websites (Starr & Adams, 2016, pp. 968-969). Currently, the common practice operates internationally in between different nations and ethnicities (Merriman, 2012, p. 87). However, the mail-order bride market is distinct from the regular intercultural dating business: a clear power structure exists between the grooms (capitalist along with mail-order marriage companies) and the brides (commodities). This paper examines how this dating market serves Western men (I will be using this term interchangeably with American men) to reinforce traditional Western masculine hegemony and ethnic dominance in a global setting (Starr & Adams, 2016, p. 972).