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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| Language Notes: | In English. |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
[2017]
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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.