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

"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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Autore principale: Bloch, Alexia (Autore)
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2017]
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Sommario:
  • 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.