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Autore |
Zelizer Viviana A. Rotman |
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Titolo |
The purchase of intimacy / / Viviana A. Zelizer |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2005 |
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ISBN |
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9786612157790 |
1-282-15779-5 |
1-4008-2675-6 |
0-691-12408-6 |
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Edizione |
[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Couples - Finance, Personal |
Interpersonal relations - Economic aspects |
Financial security |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-345) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. Encounters of Intimacy and Economy -- Chapter 2. Intimacy in Law -- Chapter 3. Coupling -- Chapter 4. Caring Relations -- Chapter 5. Household Commerce -- Chapter 6. Intimate Revelations -- References -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In their personal lives, people consider it essential to separate economics and intimacy. We have, for example, a long-standing taboo against workplace romance, while we see marital love as different from prostitution because it is not a fundamentally financial exchange. In The Purchase of Intimacy, Viviana Zelizer mounts a provocative challenge to this view. Getting to the heart of one of life's greatest taboos, she shows how we all use economic activity to create, maintain, and renegotiate important ties--especially intimate ties--to other people. In everyday life, we invest intense effort and worry to strike the right balance. For example, when a wife's income equals or surpasses her husband's, how much more time should the man devote to household chores or child care? Sometimes legal disputes arise. Should the surviving partner in a same-sex relationship have received compensation for a partner's death as a result of 9/11? Through a host |
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of compelling examples, Zelizer shows us why price is central to three key areas of intimacy: sexually tinged relations; health care by family members, friends, and professionals; and household economics. She draws both on research and materials ranging from reports on compensation to survivors of 9/11 victims to financial management Web sites and advice books for same-sex couples. From the bedroom to the courtroom, The Purchase of Intimacy opens a fascinating new window on the inner workings of the economic processes that pervade our private lives. |
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