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Book SynopsisIllustrates how the operation of globalization enforces notions of women's domesticity and creates contradictory messages about women's place in society
Trade ReviewThis forceful study is as ethnographically gripping as it is theoretically sophisticated. Parreñass incisive examination leads us to new analytic terrain by dispelling the myths of globalization. -- David L. Eng,author of Racial Castration
The Force of Domesticity offers fresh perspectives on the complex linkages of gender and globalization that connect the world today. Through a multi-site analysis of Filipino women, Parreñas shows how domesticity, remittances, and NGO and state-imposed notions of morality conspire to create new structures of inequalities and opportunities for transnational migrant women. -- Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo,author of Domestica
We found this book to be a compelling analysis of the plight of Filipina emigrants. * Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books *
Stands by itself as a study of Filipina work-related issues within the Philippines and overseas in the 160 countries in which Filipina domestic workers find themselves. . . . Recommended. * Choice *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Filipina Migrants and the Force of Domesticity1. Gender Ideologies in the Philippines 2. Patriarchy and Neoliberalism in the Globalization of Care 3. Gender and Communication in Transnational Migrant Families4. The Place and Placelessness of Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers 5. The Derivative Status of Asian American Women, by Rhacel Salazar Parrenas and Winnie Tam 6. The U.S. War on Trafficking and the Moral Disciplining of Migrant WomenConclusion: Analyzing Gender and Migration from the Philippines NotesBibliography Index About the Author
