Abstract

NAVARRETE, Héctor Gabriel. MY LATIN BRIDE. Antipod. Rev. Antropol. Arqueol. [online]. 2006, n.2, pp.315-326. ISSN 1900-5407.

This article seeks to show how the social representations and stereotypes of e Latin-American women, evident in the web-pages of transnational marriage agencies, affect the construction of subjectivity of the female users of these sites. For this purpose, the text explores the relationships between gender, race and "Latin-Americanity" representations and the stereotype construction of Latin women offered as potential wives to American men. Finally, it articulates these relations with the case study of a Colombian woman that used the internet to find a husband and her incorporation of stereotypical characteristics.

Keywords : Representation; stereotype; Latin-America; Internet; subjectivity; mail-order bride.

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