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How China's mail-order brides are taking back control

Chinese Whispers

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The Reverse of Racialized Sexual Capital

A lot of men, they feel that in the West women have become overly feminized. Some of these men call women feminazis for being overly invested in their careers and being aggressive at home. For people like that they're very nostalgic of having a stay-at-home wife which they feel it's very difficult to find in the West. That's one of the reasons they're looking to the East and to other places in Eastern Europe or Latin Americalooking for a so-called traditional woman.

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