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Sex, Love, and Migration : Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic /

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"Sex, Love, and Migration goes beyond a common narrative of women's exploitation as a feature of migration in the early twenty-first century, a story that features young women from poor countries who cross borders to work in low paid and often intimate labor. Alexia Bloch argues that the m...

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Main Author: Bloch, Alexia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women foreign workers.
Transnationalism.
Post-communism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural & Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Society and culture: general.
Ethical issues: prostitution and sex industry.
Ethical issues and debates.
Postcommunisme > Ex-URSS.
Transnationalisme.
Travailleuses etrangeres > Ex-URSS.
Post-communism > Former Soviet republics.
Women foreign workers > Turkey.
Women foreign workers > Former Soviet republics.
Turkey.
Soviet Union > Former Soviet republics.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Magnificent centuries and economies of desire
  • Gender, labor, and emotion in a global economy
  • We are like slaves, who needs capitalism? : intimate economies and marginal, mobile households
  • Strategic intimacy, "real love," and marriage
  • Intimate currencies : mobilizing sex "without hang-ups," love, and romance
  • Other mothers and a transnational nurturing nexus.

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