Domestic Economies : Women, Work, and the American Dream in Los Angeles /

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Susanna Rosenbaum examines how immigrant Mexican and Central American domestic workers in Los Angeles and the predominantly white, upper-middle-class women who employ them seek to achieve the ""American Dream, "" underscoring how the American Dream's ideology is racialized a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rosenbaum, Susanna, 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Sozialanthropologie
Soziale Situation
Mutterschaft
Hausgehilfin
Lateinamerikanische Einwanderin
American dream
Working class women > Social conditions.
Women household employees.
Women foreign workers > Social conditions.
Motherhood.
Middle class women > Social conditions.
Hispanic American women > Employment.
American Dream.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Maternite > Californie > Los Angeles.
Rêve americain.
Femmes de la classe moyenne > Californie > Los Angeles > Conditions sociales.
Travailleuses etrangeres > Californie > Los Angeles > Conditions sociales.
Employees de maison > Californie > Los Angeles.
Americaines d'origine latino-americaine > Travail > Californie > Los Angeles.
Motherhood > California > Los Angeles.
Middle class women > California > Los Angeles > Social conditions.
Working class women > California > Los Angeles > Social conditions.
Women foreign workers > California > Los Angeles > Social conditions.
Women household employees > California > Los Angeles.
Hispanic American women > Employment > California > Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, Calif.
California > Los Angeles.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Producing in/visibility in Los Angeles
  • Middle-class dreaming and the limits of "Americanness"
  • Making mothers count
  • Organizing, motherhood, and the meanings of (domestic) work
  • Dreaming American.

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