The purchase of intimacy [[electronic resource] /] / Viviana A. Zelizer

• Autore: Zelizer Viviana A. Rotman
• Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2005
• Edizione: Course Book
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Disciplina: 332.024/01/0865
• Soggetto topico: Couples - Finance, Personal; Interpersonal relations - Economic aspects; Financial security
• Classificazione: 77.63
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-345) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Purchase of intimacy
• ISBN: 9786612157790; 1-282-15779-5; 1-4008-2675-6; 0-691-12408-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910172219403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II