作者简介
Eileen Boris is Hull Professor and Chair of Fe mi nist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she directs the Center for Re se arch on Women and Social Justice. Rhacel Salazar Parreñas is Professor of American Civilization and Sociology at Brown University.
内容简介
What do home health aides, call center operators, pro stitutes, sperm donors, nail manicurists, and house cleaner s 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 se x work in everyday life and illuminates the juncture where m one y and inti mac y meet.
In tim ate labor is presented as a comprehensive cate go ry of investigation into gender, race, class, and other power relations in the cont ex t of global economic transformations. In chronicling the history of intimate labor in light of the rise and dev olution 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 econo my .
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.
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