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3. The Transmission of Care

Affective Economies and Indian Call Centers
© 2020 Stanford University Press, Redwood City

© 2020 Stanford University Press, Redwood City

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
  4. CONTRIBUTORS xi
  5. 1. Introduction 1
  6. I. Remaking the Intimate: Technology and Globalization
  7. 2. Technologies of Caring Labor 18
  8. 3. The Transmission of Care 33
  9. 4. Foreign and Domestic 49
  10. 5. Selling Genes, Selling Gender 63
  11. 6. Gender Labor 78
  12. II. Creating Intimate: Boundaries Culture and Social Relations
  13. 7. Traveling Cultures of Servitude 101
  14. 8. My Reward Is Not Money 117
  15. 9. Cultures of Flirtation 132
  16. 10. Bounded Authenticity and the Commerce of Sex 148
  17. 11. Economies of Emotion, Familiarity, Fantasy, and Desire 166
  18. III. Organizing Intimate Labor: Politics and Mobilization
  19. 12. Making Home Care 187
  20. 13. Power, Intimacy, and Contestation 204
  21. 14. Manicuring Intimacies 217
  22. 15. But Who Will Care for the Children? 231
  23. 16. Sex and (Evacuation from) the City 249
  24. IV. Conclusion: Thinking Ahead
  25. 17. Caring Everywhere 267
  26. 18. More Intimate Unions 280
  27. Bibliography 297
  28. Index 335
Intimate Labors
This chapter is in the book Intimate Labors
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804777278-005

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
  4. CONTRIBUTORS xi
  5. 1. Introduction 1
  6. I. Remaking the Intimate: Technology and Globalization
  7. 2. Technologies of Caring Labor 18
  8. 3. The Transmission of Care 33
  9. 4. Foreign and Domestic 49
  10. 5. Selling Genes, Selling Gender 63
  11. 6. Gender Labor 78
  12. II. Creating Intimate: Boundaries Culture and Social Relations
  13. 7. Traveling Cultures of Servitude 101
  14. 8. My Reward Is Not Money 117
  15. 9. Cultures of Flirtation 132
  16. 10. Bounded Authenticity and the Commerce of Sex 148
  17. 11. Economies of Emotion, Familiarity, Fantasy, and Desire 166
  18. III. Organizing Intimate Labor: Politics and Mobilization
  19. 12. Making Home Care 187
  20. 13. Power, Intimacy, and Contestation 204
  21. 14. Manicuring Intimacies 217
  22. 15. But Who Will Care for the Children? 231
  23. 16. Sex and (Evacuation from) the City 249
  24. IV. Conclusion: Thinking Ahead
  25. 17. Caring Everywhere 267
  26. 18. More Intimate Unions 280
  27. Bibliography 297
  28. Index 335
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