Intimate labors
Subtitle: cultures, technologies, and the politics of care
By: edited by Eileen Boris and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas.
Contributors: Boris, Eileen, 1948-; Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar.
Publisher: Stanford Social Sciences
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780804761925; 9780804761932
Subjects: Women -- Employment -- Social aspects; Intimacy (Psychology) -- Economic aspects; Interpersonal relations and culture; Women employees -- Labor unions; Sex-oriented businesses; Work -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Technologies of caring labor : from objects to affect / Ariel Ducey; title: The transmission of care : affective economies and Indian call centers / Kalindi Vora; title: Foreign and domestic : adoption, immigration, and privatization / Laura Briggs; title: Selling genes, selling gender : egg agencies, sperm banks, and the medical market in genetic material / Rene Almeling; title: Gender labor : transmen, femmes, and collective work of transgression / Jane Ward; title: Traveling cultures of servitude : loyalty and betrayal in New York and Kolkata / Seemin Qayum and Raka Ray; title: My reward is not money : deep alliances and the end of life care among Mexicana workers and their wards / Maria de la Luz Ibarra; title: Cultures of flirtation : sex and the moral boundaries of Filipina migrant hostesses in Tokyo / Rhacel Parreñas; title: Bounded authenticity and the commerce of sex / Elizabeth Bernstein; title: Economies of emotion, familiarity, fantasy, and desire : emotional labor in Ho Chi Minh City's sex industry / Kimberly Kay Hoang; title: Making home care : law and social policy in the U.S. welfare state / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein; title: Power, intimacy, and contestation : Dorothy Bolden and domestic worker organizing in Atlanta in the 1960s / Premilla Nadasen; title: Manicuring intimacies : inequality and resistance in nail salon work / Millian Kang; title: But who will care for the children? : organizing child care providers in the wake of welfare reform / Ellen Reese; title: Sex and (evacuation from) the city : the moral and legal regulation of sex workers in Vancouver's West End, 1975-1985 / Becki Ross; title: Caring everywhere / Viviana Zelizer; title: More intimate unions / Dorothy Sue Cobble.