The Psychological and Marital Experiences of Filipino Mail-Order Brides in the United States

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amee Velasco
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mail Order ◽  
Mail Order Brides

Performing the Filipina Mail-Order Bride

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-89
Author(s):  
Gina K. Velasco
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
Cultural Nationalism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Gay Marriage ◽  
Mail Order ◽  
Mail Order Brides ◽  
And Performance

Chapter 3 argues that the video and performance art project Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride, by the Filipina American video and performance art ensemble the Mail Order Brides / M.O.B., reconfigures the discourse of Filipina mail-order brides as abject figures. Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride undermines the heteronormativity and masculinism of Filipina/o American cultural nationalism while also critiquing the homonationalism of LGBT cultural politics in the United States. Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride is situated within a broader US political context of queer neoliberalism, in which gay marriage is a sign of homonational belonging. A queer neoliberal logic commodifies the labor of transnational Filipina bodies, revealing the inherent racism of the mainstream LGBT movement’s inability to address issues of race, migration, and labor.

Building the Transnational “Body Beautiful”—K.V. Iyer and the Circulation of Bodybuilding Practices between India and the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Aishwarya Ramachandran ◽  
Conor Heffernan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mail Order ◽  
Transnational Community ◽  
Health Community ◽  
Health Advice ◽  
American Physical ◽  
Global Exchange ◽  
Scientific Ideas ◽  
The Ideal

This article examines the career of the Indian physical culturist, K.V. Iyer, and situates his writings from the 1920s and 1930s within a transnational community between India and the United States. Iyer ran several gymnasiums, offered health advice, and sold books and mail-order courses across India and internationally. Previous studies have focused on his yogic practices and anti-colonial thinking, with less attention given to his place in the global bodybuilding community. While his writings were sometimes suffused with political rhetoric, his vision of the ideal citizen was derived from his immersion in Western scientific ideas around physiology and anatomy and his ongoing communication with American physical culturists. Studying a global health community between India and the United States, which first found expression through yoga and the Young Men Christian Association, this article positions Iyer as a leading figure in a global exchange of Indian and American ideas concerning the muscular body.

Auctions as a Threat to American Business in the Eighteen Twenties and Thirties

1937 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 104-107
Author(s):  
Lewis E. Atherton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Business ◽  
Mail Order ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Chain Stores ◽  
History Of

In the history of business one finds a universal inclination to oppose new techniques which threaten to undermine established enterprise. Today this tendency is seen in the United States in the fight against chain stores and mail-order houses; a hundred years ago the new auction system of wholesaling was under fire.

scholarly journals Chestnut Production in the Northwestern United States

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 296-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.L. Olsen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cryphonectria Parasitica ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Farmers Markets ◽  
Mail Order ◽  
Direct Sales ◽  
European Chestnut ◽  
Worldwide Production

The chestnut (Castanea Mill.) industry in the northwestern United States is in its relative infancy, with most orchards being less than 10 years of age. Currently there are an estimated 300 acres (121 ha) in Oregon and Washington. California has about 500 acres (202 ha) in chestnuts. Current worldwide production is over 500,000 tons (435,600 t). China is the leading producer with 40%, followed by Korea at 15%. Italy, Turkey and Japan grow 10% each, while France, Greece and Spain grow 4% each. The United States, Chile, Argentina, New Zealand and Australia each grow less than 1%. The value of chestnuts imported into the United States is estimated to be $10 to 15 million annually. Domestic producers hope to displace some of the imported chestnuts in the marketplace. The leading variety being grown in the western United States is `Colossal,' a hybrid between european chestnut (C. sativa Mill.) and japanese chestnut (C. crenata Gillet). `Dunstan' hybrids are chestnut blight (Cryphonectria parasitica Murr.) resistant, and were bred in Florida using chinese chestnut (C. mollisima Blume) and american chestnut (C. dentata Marsh. Borkh.) parentage. Prices received by chestnut producers in the northwestern United States have ranged from $1.20 to $7.00/lb ($2.64 to $15.40/kg). The marketing of chestnuts has been through brokers into wholesale markets, farmers markets, mail order and direct sales through catalogues and World Wide Web sites.

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