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SUMMARY:The Love Market: How Shopping for Dates Online Affects Women - Zoe
  Strimpel\, MPhil Candidate\, Department of Geography\, Gender Studies\; W
 olfson College
DTSTART:20130612T120000Z
DTEND:20130612T130000Z
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CONTACT:Dr. Meredith M. Hale
DESCRIPTION:Online daters browse\, select\, sample and return defective go
 ods\, meanwhile constructing and maintaining saleable profiles of themselv
 es. But how accurate is the shopping metaphor? And to what extent and in w
 hat ways are female internet daters affected by the experience of being sh
 opped for and of shopping for others? My inquiry focuses on the ways in wh
 ich the commodification inherent in this system carries particular signifi
 cance for women\, who are more likely to feel commoditised offline and who
  are also more wary of seeming to “sell themselves short”. I will anal
 yse daters’ responses to a cocktail of semiotic cues urging them to try\
 , amend and keep going\; as well as looking at daters’ strategies of res
 istance to the shopping metaphor. Finally\, my research is framed by a his
 torical perspective on the relations between capitalism\, consumerism\, da
 ting and gender: an essential backdrop to the tensions of the contemporary
  online dating exchange.\n\nwww.zoestrimpel.com
LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College
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