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Global Woman Nannies Maids & Sex Workers in the New Economy

by Barbara Ehrenreich, Arlie Russell Hochschild
Global Woman Nannies Maids & Sex Workers in the New Economy

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“Important and provocative . . . There are many tempting reasons to pick up Global Woman.” The New York Times

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 third world countries to work in the homes, nurseries, and brothels of the first world. This broad-scale transfer of labor results in an odd displacement, in which the female energy that flows to wealthy countries is subtracted from poor oneseasing a “care deficit” in rich countries, while creating one back home.

Confronting a range of topics from the fate of Vietnamese mail-order brides to the importation of Mexican nannies in Los Angeles, Global Woman offers an original look at a world increasingly shaped by mass migration and economic exchange. Collected and with an Introduction by bestselling social critics Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, this groundbreaking anthology reveals a new era in which the main resource extracted from developing nations is no longer gold or silver, but love.

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of fourteen books, including The New York Times bestsellers Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch.

Arlie Russell Hochschild is the author of national bestsellers The Time Bind and The Second Shift. She is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkely.

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 nannyor cleaning woman, nursing care attendant, maideases a "care deficit" in rich countries, while her absence creates one 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, a diverse and distinguished group of writers offers an unprecedented look at a world increasingly shaped by mass migration and economic exchange. Collected and introduced by best-selling authors Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, these fifteen essays reveal a new era in which the main goods extracted from the Third World are no longer natural resources and agricultural products, but female labor and love.

"This very interesting collection focuses on the multiple effects of globalization on women and their families. Among its subjects are the rise in female migration, the transfer of domestic services from low- to high-income countries, the care crisis left behind by transnational families, and the problems of international sex tourism. The different essays raise key questions and are important reading for our time."Lourdes Beneria, Professor of City and Regional Planning and Women's Studies at Cornell University

"There are many tempting reasons to pick up Global Woman . . . the overarching theme is important and provocative . . . and the personal anecdotes that spill off every page are heartbreaking, infuriating, dramatic and occasionally hilarious."—The New York Times

"This very interesting collection focuses on the multiple effects of globalization on women and their families. Among its subjects are the rise in female migration, the transfer of domestic services from low- to high-income countries, the care crisis left behind by transnational families, and the problems of international sex tourism. The different essays raise key questions and are important reading for our time."—Lourdes Beneria, Professor of City and Regional Planning and Women's Studies at Cornell University

"These 15 important essays offer a broad view . . . with the aim of achieving better treatment of the women who make monumental sacrifices in search of a better life for themselves and their families."—San Francisco Chronicle

"Global Woman is an extraordinary and original book documenting the effects of far-flung globalization on that most local, domestic, and essential of pursuits—mothering. The commercialization of domestic activity has been hidden in plain view. The authors of Global Woman make it vividly visible."—Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect

"Two of the best social thinkers of our time have joined together to produce a volume of deep insight and impeccable scholarship about what it means to be female, poor and ready to move across borders. Long after the advocates of Neoliberalism have been forgotten, this book will live on."—Patricia Fernández-Kelly, author of For We Are Sold, I and My People

"A series of vivid and devastating portraits of women caught up in the global commodification of women's traditional labor, this collection also illuminates the larger forces driving the transnational traffic in child and elder care, housecleaning, and sex services . . . Global Woman will change the way we think about globalization and about women's caring labor."—Evelyn Nakano Glenn, author of Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor

"The feminization of the migrant work force is an enormously important, underreported subject . . . Fascinating, illuminating, harrowing."—Salon.com

"This important book should find a place for itself among scholars of globalization, migration studies, and women's studies . . . The current discourse on globalization, according to the authors, has little to say about the 'migration of maids, nannies, nurses, sex workers, and contract brides,' since, to most economists, these women 'are just individuals making a go of it.' The positive effects of their labor are sometimes noted: the money they remit to home countries is a major source of foreign exchange, and the work they do in the host country enables a large pool of upwardly mobile First World women to pursue productive careers. The negative consequences, which can include emotional hardships caused by leaving children behind as well as physical strains, are rarely acknowledged. Social critics Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed) and Hochschild (The Time Bind) point out that in previous centuries the developed world imported natural resources, and now the import du jour is women, ideally, 'happy peasant' women who can care for the elderly and disabled, lovingly raise children and provide sexual services for men. The editors have gathered some 15 essays on aspects of 'the female underside of globalization'—e.g., Filipina housekeepers in Hong Kong, Latina domestic workers in Los Angeles, sexual slaves in Thailand, Vietnamese contract brides—mostly written by academics working in the field, but largely jargon-free. While one small book can't say everything about a major global phenomenon, Ehrenreich and Hochschild have at least brought attention to these women's plight."—Publishers Weekly

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“The feminization of the migrant workforce is an enormously important, underreported subject . . . Fascinating, illuminating, harrowing.” —Salon

“These essays offer a broad view with the aim of achieving better treatment of the women who make monumental sacrifices in search of a better life.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Synopsis

“Important and provocative . . . There are many tempting reasons to pick up Global Woman.” —The New York Times

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 third world countries to work in the homes, nurseries, and brothels of the first world. This broad-scale transfer of labor results in an odd displacement, in which the female energy that flows to wealthy countries is subtracted from poor ones—easing a “care deficit” in rich countries, while creating one back home.

Confronting a range of topics from the fate of Vietnamese mail-order brides to the importation of Mexican nannies in Los Angeles, Global Woman offers an original look at a world increasingly shaped by mass migration and economic exchange. Collected and with an Introduction by bestselling social critics Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, this groundbreaking anthology reveals a new era in which the main resource extracted from developing nations is no longer gold or silver, but love.


About the Author

Barbara Ehrenreich is the bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Bait and Switch, Bright-sided, This Land Is Their Land, Dancing in the Streets and Blood Rites, among others. A frequent contributor to Harper's and The Nation, she has also been a columnist at The New York Times and Time magazine. She is the winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize for Current Interest and ALA Notable Books for Nonfiction.  Ehrenreich was born in Butte, Montana, when it was still a bustling mining town. She studied physics at Reed College, and earned a Ph.D. in cell biology from Rockefeller University. Rather than going into laboratory work, she got involved in activism, and soon devoted herself to writing her innovative journalism. She lives and works in Florida.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild

Love and Gold by Arlie Russell Hochschild

The Nanny Dilemma by Susan Cheever

The Care Crisis in the Philippines: Children and Transnational Families in the New Global Economy by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas

Blowups and Other Unhappy Endings by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

Invisible Labors: Caring for the Independent Person by Lynn May Rivas

Maid to Order by Barbara Ehrenreich

Just Another Job? The Commodification of Domestic Labor by Bridget Anderson

Filipina Workers in Hong Kong Homes: Household Rules and Relations by Nicole Constable

America's Dirty Work: Migrant Maids and Modern-Day Slavery by Joy M. Zarembka

Selling Sex for Visas: Sex Tourism as a Stepping Stone to International Migration by Denise Brennan

Among Women: Migrant Domestics and Their Taiwanese Employers Across Generations by Pei-Chia Lan

Breadwinner No More by Michele Gamburd

Because She Looks like a Child by Kevin Bales

Clashing Dreams: Highly Educated Overseas Brides and Low-Wage U.S. Husbands by Hung Cam Thai

Global Cities and Survival Circuits by Saskia Sassen

Migration Trends: Maps and Chart by Robert Espinoza

Appendix: Activist Organizations

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780805075090
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
01/01/2004
Publisher:
HENRY HOLT & CO
Pages:
336
Height:
.85IN
Width:
5.54IN
Thickness:
.75
Number of Units:
1
Illustration:
Yes
Copyright Year:
2004
Series Volume:
no. 1998/242
Author:
Barbara Ehrenreich
Editor:
Barbara Ehrenreich
Editor:
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Editor:
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Author:
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Author:
Arlie RussellHochschild
Subject:
Minority women
Subject:
Women alien labor. .
Subject:
Nannies
Subject:
Prostitution
Subject:
Women domestics
Subject:
Gender Studies-Womens Studies

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