Intimate labors cultures, technologies, and the politics of care /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Boris, Eileen, 1948-, Parrenas, Rhacel Salazar.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Social Sciences, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 Parrenas
  • 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.