Intimate labors : cultures, technologies, and the politics of care /
This collection represents a stellar interdisciplinary contribution to research on work shaped by personal and emotional interaction. The essays embody the best quality of the work they explore--a thoughtful and discerning sensitivity to human need."--Nancy Folbre, author of Greed, Lust and Gen...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford Social Sciences,
2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.