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Intimate labors [[electronic resource] ] : cultures, technologies, and the politics of care / / edited by Eileen Boris and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas



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Titolo: Intimate labors [[electronic resource] ] : cultures, technologies, and the politics of care / / edited by Eileen Boris and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford Social Sciences, 2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (357 p.)
Disciplina: 306.3/6082
Soggetto topico: Women - Employment - Social aspects
Intimacy (Psychology) - Economic aspects
Interpersonal relations and culture
Women employees - Labor unions
Sex industry
Work - Social aspects
Altri autori: BorisEileen <1948->  
ParreñasRhacel Salazar  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Technologies of caring labor : from objects to affect / Ariel Ducey -- The transmission of care : affective economies and Indian call centers / Kalindi Vora -- Foreign and domestic : adoption, immigration, and privatization / Laura Briggs -- Selling genes, selling gender : egg agencies, sperm banks, and the medical market in genetic material / Rene Almeling -- Gender labor : transmen, femmes, and collective work of transgression / Jane Ward -- Traveling cultures of servitude : loyalty and betrayal in New York and Kolkata / Seemin Qayum and Raka Ray -- My reward is not money : deep alliances and the end of life care among Mexicana workers and their wards / Maria de la Luz Ibarra -- Cultures of flirtation : sex and the moral boundaries of Filipina migrant hostesses in Tokyo / Rhacel Parreñas -- Bounded authenticity and the commerce of sex / Elizabeth Bernstein -- Economies of emotion, familiarity, fantasy, and desire : emotional labor in Ho Chi Minh City's sex industry / Kimberly Kay Hoang -- Making home care : law and social policy in the U.S. welfare state / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein -- Power, intimacy, and contestation : Dorothy Bolden and domestic worker organizing in Atlanta in the 1960s / Premilla Nadasen -- Manicuring intimacies : inequality and resistance in nail salon work / Millian Kang -- But who will care for the children? : organizing child care providers in the wake of welfare reform / Ellen Reese -- Sex and (evacuation from) the city : the moral and legal regulation of sex workers in Vancouver's West End, 1975-1985 / Becki Ross -- Caring everywhere / Viviana Zelizer -- More intimate unions / Dorothy Sue Cobble.
Sommario/riassunto: This book advances debates over the relationship between care and economy through the concept of intimate labor-care, domestic, and sex work-and thus charts relations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship in the context of global economic transformations.
Titolo autorizzato: Intimate labors  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8047-7727-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910791753403321
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