Home and hegemony
Subtitle: domestic service and identity politics in South and Southeast Asia
By: edited by Kathleen M. Adams and Sara Dickey.
Contributors: Adams, Kathleen M., 1957-; Dickey, Sara.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Domestics -- South Asia; Domestics -- Asia, Southeastern; Minorities -- Employment -- South Asia; Minorities -- Employment -- Asia, Southeastern; South Asia -- Ethnic relations; Southeast Asia -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: negotiating homes, hegemonies, identities, and politics / Sara Dickey and Kathleen M. Adams; title: Mutual exclusions: domestic workers and employers on labor, class, and character in South India / Sara Dickey; title: Transfers of knowledge and privileged spheres of practice: servants and employers in a Madras railway colony / Rachel Tolen; title: Service or servitude?: the domestication of household labor in Nepal / Saubhagya Shah; title: Always home, never home: Visayan "helpers" and identities / Jean-Paul Dumont; title: Inside the home and outside the family: the domestic estrangement of Javanese servants / G.G. Weix; title: Negotiated identities: humor, kinship rhetoric, and mythologies of servitude in south Sulawesi, Indonesia / Kathleen M. Adams; title: Nurture for sale: Sri Lankan housemaids and the work of mothering / Michele Ruth Gamburd; title: Dependents in the master's house: when rock dulls scissors / Louise H. Kidder; title: Dolls, T-birds, and ideal workers: the negotiation of Filipino identity in Hong Kong / Nicole Constable; title: Gender, Islam, and nationality: Indonesian domestic servants in the Middle East / Kathryn Robinson; title: Ambiguous hegemonies: identity politics and domestic service / Karen Tranberg Hansen.