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The Marriage Market The Marriage Market
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The Marriage Market (French Versions) The Marriage Market (French Versions)
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European Exchange European Exchange
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The Desire for Occident The Desire for Occident
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The Traffic in Women as a Category of Analysis The Traffic in Women as a Category of Analysis
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1. European Kinship: East European Women Go to Market
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Published:May 2014
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Starting from a reading of Cristian Mungiu’s film, Occident (2002), which dramatizes the dilemmas of two Romanian women contemplating their local and European marital options, the chapter traces the second-wave feminist debate on the traffic in women. The chapter proposes that the notion of kinship developed by Lévi-Strauss and critiqued by second-wave feminists resonates critically with contemporary discourses that describe the European Union as a family. Culture, according to Lévi-Strauss, is made through the exchange of goods and services, signs, and women. Mungiu’s film suggests that, in an effort to become part of “European culture,” and in the absence of an abundance of goods, services and signs, East European countries participate in an exchange in women. The chapter revisits key arguments about kinship (as well as its corollaries, alliance and affinity), marriage and women’s work in Marx, Lévi-Strauss, and Foucault; Emma Goldman, Gayle Rubin, Luce Irigaray, and Judith Butler.
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