Intimate economies : bodies, emotions, and sexualities on the global market /: bodies, emotions, and sexualities on the global market. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Susanne Hofmann, Adi Moreno, editors.
• Editors: Hofmann, Susanne; Moreno, Adi
• Contents: 1. Introduction: global intimate economies: discontents and debates -- 2. The "authentic cybertariat"? commodifying feeling, accents and cultural identities in the global South -- 3. Regulating sexy subjects: the case of Brazilian fashion retail and its affective workforce -- 4. Emotional labor and ethical practice: professionalism among sex workers in Tijuana -- 5. A feast of men: sexuality, kinship and predation in the practices of female prostitution in downtown Porto Alegre -- 6. Neoliberalism, oil wealth and migrant sex work in the Chadian city of N'Djamena -- 7. The use of "life-enabling" practices among Waria: vulnerability, subsistence and identity in contemporary Yogyakarta -- 8. Gestational labors: care politics and surrogates' struggle -- 9. Surrogate mothers and gay fathers: navigating the commercial surrogacy arrangement in India -- 10. Families on the market front.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (276 pages)
• Subjects: 305.3; Prostitution; Sex role -- Economic aspects; Prostitution; Sex role -- Economic aspects; Social Sciences; Sociology of the Body; Emotion; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137560360; 1137560363
• Related ISBNs: 9781137560353; 1137560355
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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