1. A Room of One’s Own: Managing Spaces, Lives, and Laws in Residential Care Work

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Prologue vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. A Room of One’s Own: Managing Spaces, Lives, and Laws in Residential Care Work 26
6. 2. Practicing Abundance: Immigrant Women and the Challenge of Consumption 61
7. 3. Strong Mothers, Great Lovers: Sexuality in Emigration 95
8. 4. Getting Serious: Courtship, Love, and (Maybe) Marriage in Emigration 117
9. 5. Proper, Respectable Places: The Arduous Construction of Community Institutions 144
10. Conclusion: From the Detritus of the Soviet Union into a New Social World 172
11. Acknowledgments 207
12. Appendix: How I Conducted My Study 209
13. Notes 215
14. References 245
15. Index of Participant Pseudonyms 261
16. Index of Subjects 263