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Author:

Gutierrez Garza, Ana P., author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2018046947

Title:

Care for sale : an ethnography of Latin American domestic and sex workers in London / Ana P. Gutiérrez Garza.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xvi, 208 pages : illustration ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Foreign workers, Latin American--London--London--Social conditions.
Women foreign workers--London--London--Social conditions.
Women household employees--London--London--Social conditions.
Prostitutes--London--London--Social conditions.
Latin Americans--London--London--Social conditions.
Latin Americans--Social conditions.
Prostitutes--Social conditions.
Women foreign workers--Social conditions.
Women household employees--Social conditions.
England--London.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-204) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Care for sale -- Part I. Personal dislocations. "Why did I come to London?": narrating the migrant self ; Becoming an "illegal" person -- Part II. Dislocations at work. Domestic work and the commodification of care ; Managing intimacies in sex work -- Part III. Impossible locations. The intimacy of the gift ; Uptopian selves: "Who we really are" -- Conclusion.

Series:

Issues of globalization : case studies in contemporary anthropology

ISBN:

019084065X
9780190840655

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1052905060

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)