Intimate Labors
Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care
What do home health aides, call center operators, prostitutes, sperm donors, nail manicurists, and housecleaners have in common? Around the world, they make their livings through touch, closeness, and personal care. Their labors, both paid and unpaid, sustain the day-to-day work that we require to survive. This book takes a close look at carework, domestic work, and sex work in everyday life and illuminates the juncture where money and intimacy meet.Intimate labor is presented as a comprehensive category of investigation into gender, race, class, and other power relations in the context of global economic transformations. In chronicling the h…
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Weitere Autoren: Boris, Eileen (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8047-7727-8
- EAN: 9780804777278
- Produktnummer: 23011992
- Verlag: Stanford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 360 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 573 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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Edited by Eileen Boris and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
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