Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0804761930 ISBN 13 : 9780804761932

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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 history of intimate labor in light of the rise and devolution of welfare states, women's workforce participation, family formation, the expansion of sex work into new industries, and the development of institutions for dependent people, this wide-ranging reader advances debates over the relationship between care and economy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Eileen Boris is Hull Professor and Chair of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she directs the Center for Research on Women and Social Justice. Rhacel Salazar Parreñas is Professor of American Civilization and Sociology at Brown University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804761930
• ISBN 13: 9780804761932
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Éditeur: Parreñas Rhacel Salazar, Boris Eileen
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