Intimate Labors Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care

Abstract

This book advances debates over the relationship between care and economy through the concept of intimate labor--care, domestic, and sex work--and thus charts relations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship in the context of global economic transformations.Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction / Eileen Boris and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas -- 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 / Seemin Qayum and Raka Ray -- 8. My Reward Is Not Money: Deep Alliances and End-of-Life Care among Mexicana Workers and Their Wards / María de la Luz Ibarra -- 9. Cultures of Flirtation: Sex and the Moral Boundaries of Filipina Migrant Hostesses in Tokyo / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas -- 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 / Eileen Boris and 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 Reese16. 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 -- Bibliography -- IndexThis book advances debates over the relationship between care and economy through the concept of intimate labor--care, domestic, and sex work--and thus charts relations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship in the context of global economic transformations.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries