Dating in a Sexually Segregated Society: Embodied Practices of Online Romance in Irbid, Jordan

摘要

Each of them unsmilingly raised one hand in parting as he left. Since the late nineteenth century, Middle Eastern women have steadily increased their presence in "public" spaces, such as the street, the university, the market, the office, and the mosque (Macleod 1993, Arat 1997, Asfaruddin 1999, Massad 2001, Thompson 2000, Newcomb 2006). [...] much literature has shown that, for many, the mediated, textual nature of much internet communication indexically signifies alienation from the body, conventional identities, and the material world (Turkle 1995, Kollock and Smith 1999; see also Haraway 2001).