Research Catalog

Title

Intimate labors : cultures, technologies, and the politics of care / edited by Eileen Boris and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas.

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Social Sciences, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Boris, Eileen, 1948-
• Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar.

Description

xiv, 340 p.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Interpersonal relations and culture
• Work > Social aspects
• Women > Employment > Social aspects
• Intimacy (Psychology) > Economic aspects
• Women employees > Labor unions
• Sex-oriented businesses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction / Rhacel Salazar Parrenas -- Part I. Remaking the Intimate: Technology and Globalization -- 2. Technologies of Caring Labor: From Objects to Affect / Ariel Ducey -- 3. The Transmission of Care: Affective Economies and Indian Call Centers / Kalindi Vora -- 4. Foreign and Domestic: Adoption, Immigration, and Privatization / Laura Briggs -- 5. Selling Genes, Selling Gender: Egg Agencies, Sperm Banks, and the Medical Market in Genetic Material / Rene Almeling -- 6. Gender Labor: Transmen, Femmes, and Collective Work of Transgression / Jane Ward -- Part II. Creating Intimate Boundaries: Culture and Social Relations -- 7. Traveling Cultures of Servitude: Loyalty and Betrayal in New York and Kolkata / Raka Ray -- 8. My Reward Is Not Money: Deep Alliances and End-of-Life Care among Mexicana Workers and Their Wards / Maria de la Luz Ibarra -- 9. Cultures of Flirtation: Sex and the Moral Boundaries of Filipina Migrant Hostesses in Tokyo / Rhacel Salazar Parrenas -- 10. Bounded Authenticity and the Commerce of Sex / Elizabeth Bernstein -- 11. Economies of Emotion, Familiarity, Fantasy, and Desire: Emotional Labor in Ho Chi Minh City's Sex Industry / Kimberly Kay Hoang -- Part III. Organizing Intimate Labor: Politics and Mobilization -- 12. Making Home Care: Law and Social Policy in the U.S. Welfare State / Jennifer Klein -- 13. Power, Intimacy, and Contestation: Dorothy Bolden and Domestic Worker Organizing in Atlanta in the 1960s / Premilla Nadasen -- 14. Manicuring Intimacies: Inequality and Resistance in Nail Salon Work / Miliann Kang -- 15. But Who Will Care for the Children? Organizing Child Care Providers in the Wake of Welfare Reform / Ellen Reese -- 16. Sex and (Evacuation from) the City: The Moral and Legal Regulation of Sex Workers in Vancouver's West End, 1975-1985 / Becki Ross -- Part IV. Conclusion: Thinking Ahead -- 17. Caring Everywhere / Viviana Zelizer -- 18. More Intimate Unions / Dorothy Sue Cobble.

ISBN

• 9780804761925 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0804761922 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780804761932 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0804761930 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2010006263

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries