Sex, Love, and Migration : : Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic /

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Sex, Love, and Migration : : Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic / / Alexia Bloch.

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Sex, Love, and Migration goes beyond a common narrative of women's exploitation as a feature of migration in the early twenty-first century, a story that features young women from poor countries who cross borders to work in low paid and often intimate labor. Alexia Bloch argues that the mobilit...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Bloch, Alexia,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 18 b&w halftones, 1 table, 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration and Translation
  • Part 1. MOBILITIES AND INTIMACIES
  • Introduction: From the Arctic to Istanbul
  • 1. Magnificent Centuries and Economies of Desire
  • Part 2. INTIMATE PRACTICES AND GLOBAL CIRCUITS
  • 2. Gender, Labor, and Emotion in a Global Economy
  • 3. "We Are Like Slaves-Who Needs Capitalism?": Intimate Economies and Marginal, Mobile Households
  • Part 3. SEX, LOVE, AND UNPROMISING STATES
  • 4. Strategic Intimacy, "Real Love," and Marriage
  • 5. Intimate Currencies: Love, Romance, and Sex "without Hang-ups"
  • 6. "Other Mothers," Grandmothers, and the State 163 Conclusion: On the Move
  • Appendix. People Featured
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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