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Title Global dimensions of gender and carework / [edited by] Mary K. Zimmerman, Jacquelyn S. Litt, Christine E. Bose.

Imprint Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Social Sciences, 2006.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  331.48164 G51 2006    ---  Available
Description xi, 400 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents I: Globalization and multiple crises of care -- Global cities and survival circuits / Saskia Sassen -- Disposable domestics: immigrant women workers in the global economy / Grace Chang -- Migrant Filipina domestic workers and the international division of reproductive labor / Rhacel Salazar Parreņas -- Labor recruitment and the lure of the capital: central American migrants in Washington, DC / Terry A. Repak -- Multilateral organizations and early child care and education policies for developing countries / Fulvia Rosemberg -- Globalization, work hours, and the care deficit among stockbrokers / Mary Blair-Loy and Jerry A. Jacobs -- II: Transnational migration: influences on citizenship, social control, and carework -- "Just like one of the family": domestic servants in world politics / Cynthia Enloe -- From unequal freedom: how race and gender shaped American citizenship and labor / Evelyn Nakano Glenn -- Rethinking the globalization of domestic service: foreign domestics, state control, and the politics of identity in Taiwan / Shu-Ju Ada Cheng -- International migration, domestic work, and care work: undocumented Latina migrants in Israel / Rebecca Raijman, Silvina Schammah-Gesser, and Adriana Kemp -- "Forced" into unpaid carework: international student's wives in the United States / Minjeong Kim -- Caregiving in transnational context: "my wings have been cut; where can I fly?" / Denise Spitzer, Anne Neufeld, Margaret Harrison, Karen Hughes, and Miriam Stewart -- III: Motherhood, domestic work, and childcare in global perspective -- Invisible heart / Nancy Folbre -- Making care work: employed mothers in the new childcare market / Lynet Uttal -- Doing the dirty work? the global politics of domestic labour / Bridget Anderson -- Unraveling privilege: workers' children and the hidden coasts of paid childcare / Mary Romero -- " I'm here, but I'm there": the meanings of Latina transnational motherhood / Pierrette Hondagneu-Solelo and Ernestive Avila -- Maid or madam? Filipina migrant workers and the continuity of domestic labor / Pei-Chia Lan -- "Women have no tribe": connecting carework, gender, and migration in an era of HIV/AIDS in Botswana / Rebecca Upton -- IV: Valuing carework through policy and culture: communities, states, and supranational institutions -- After the family wage: a postindustrial thought experiment / Nancy Fraser -- Woman-friendly states and a public culture of care / Helga Maria Hernes -- Women and the restructuring of care work: cross-national variations and trends in ten OECD countries / Susan Chrisopherson -- Care work: invisible civic engagement / Pamela Herd and Madonna Harrington Meyer -- Acid violence and medical care in Bangladesh: women's activism as carework / Afoza Anwary -- Women's empowering carework in post-soviet Azerbaijan / Mehrangiz Najafizadeh -- Central state child care policies in post-authoritarian Spain: implications for gender and carework arrangements / Celia Valiente.
Subject Women -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Women household employees.
Women caregivers.
Child care workers.
Women foreign workers.
Women -- Employment -- Foreign countries.
Transnationalism.
Sex role.
Globalization -- Social aspects.
Added Author Zimmerman, Mary K.
Litt, Jacquelyn S., 1958-
Bose, Christine E.
ISBN 0804753245 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0804753237 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804753234 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804753241
Standard No. 9780804753241 (pbk.)
IG# 0804753237
IG# 0804753245
YDXCP 2372117
YDXCP 2372121
NLGGC 287836452
NZ1 10480210

 
    
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