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Sto caricando le informazioni... Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economydi Barbara Ehrenreich (A cura di), Arlie Russell Hochschild (A cura di)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This book takes on a subject most of us choose to ignore. The invisible work of nannies, domestics and sex workers... most of whom travel around the world for low paying, no benefit jobs. Most are separated from the families and children in order to provide a better living encouraged by Globalization. In a serious of well written essays collected by these two wonderful women, you will read some heartbreaking stories of pain, sorrow, abuse and tragedy. In a world where women are being exploited everyday but noone sees them, this book shines a light and forces the reader to examine themselves and society. ( ) An interesting book based on a series of scholarly essays about women's conditions in the global economy - largely as international domestic help, but also as nannies and sex workers. The length of the individual articles is bite-sized, and they are generally well written, well researched and interesting. Most of the chapters are heavily dependent on interviews with the subjects, which is typical for sociological or cultural studies. An insightful book that makes me, as a first world woman, profoundly grateful for the opportunities I've experienced. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In a remarkable pairing, two renowned social critics offer a groundbreaking anthology that examines the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of women worldwide. Women are moving around the globe as never before. But for every female executive racking up frequent flier miles, there are multitudes of women whose journeys go unnoticed. Each year, millions leave Mexico, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and other third world countries to work in the homes, nurseries, and brothels of the first world. This broad-scale transfer of labor associated with women's traditional roles results in an odd displacement. In the new global calculus, the female energy that flows to wealthy countries is subtracted from poor ones, often to the detriment of the families left behind. The migrant nanny--or cleaning woman, nursing care attendant, maid--eases a "care deficit" in rich countries, while her absence creates a "care deficit" back home. Confronting a range of topics, from the fate of Vietnamese mail-order brides to the importation of Mexican nannies in Los Angeles and the selling of Thai girls to Japanese brothels, "Global woman offers an unprecedented look at a world shaped by mass migration and economic exchange on an ever-increasing scale. In fifteen vivid essays--of which only four have been previously published--by a diverse and distinguished group of writers, collected and introduced by best selling authors Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, this anthology reveals a new era in which the main resource extracted from the third world is no longer gold or silver, but love. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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