Global Woman by Ehrenreich, Barbara -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Table of Contents Introduction Love and Gold The Nanny Dilemma The Care Crisis in the Philippines: Children and Transnational Families in the New Global Economy Blowups and Other Unhappy Endings

Blowups Quitting Through Alibis and Other Fictions What Blowups, Excuses, and Other Exits Say About Domestic Work

Invisible Labors: Caring for the Independent Person

Conclusion

Maid to Order Just Another Job? The Commodification of Domestic Labor Filipina Workers in Hong Kong Homes: Household Rules and Relations America’s Dirty Work: Migrant Maids and Modern-Day Slavery

Global Mothers Patterns A Comparison Solutions

Selling Sex for Visas: Sex Tourism as a Stepping-stone to International Migration

Sex Workers and Sex Tourists “Love” in a Global World: Transnational Courtship Sex Workers’ Stories Living with Foreign Men: Fantasies Versus Realities

Among Women: Migrant Domestics and Their Taiwanese Employers Across Generations

The Maid Trade in the Global South Subcontracting Filial Duty Safeguarding the Nuclear Family Smoothing Tensions and Anxieties at Home Fictive Kin Across Ethnic Boundaries Conclusion

Breadwinner No More

Alcohol: Group Bonding and Masculinity Meaning in the Making: Rukmini and Ramesh Women’s Work Joker, Simpleton, Freethinker: Lal Conclusion

Because She Looks like a Child

Rice in the Field. Fish in the River. Daughters in the Brothel. One Girl Equals One Television “I Don’t Want to Waste It, So I Take Her” Millionaire Tiger and Billionaire Geese Disposable Bodies Burmese Prostitutes To Japan, Switzerland, Germany, the United States Official Indifference and a Growth Economy

Clashing Dreams: Highly Educated Overseas Brides and Low-Wage U.S. Husbands

The Double Marriage Squeeze The Highly Educated Bride The Low-Wage Working Groom How They Meet A Clash of Dreams The Inflated Market of Respect The Future of Transpacific Marriages

Global Cities and Survival Circuits

Global Cities and Survival Circuits Toward an Alternative Narrative About Globalization Women in the Global City New Employment Regimes in Cities The Other Workers in the Advanced Corporate Economy Producing a Global Supply of the New Caretakers: The Feminization of Survival Government Debt: Shifting Resources from Women to Foreign Banks Alternative Survival Circuits Conclusion

Migration Trends: Maps and Chart Appendix: Activist Organizations Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments The Contributors Notes Copyright Page