
The Force of Domesticity
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Parrenas examines the underlying constructions of gender in neoliberal state regimes, export-oriented economies such as that of the Philippines, protective migration laws, and the actions and decisions of migrant Filipino women in maintaining families and communities, raising questions about gender relations, the status of women in globalization, and the meanings of greater consumptive power that migration garners for women. The Force of Domesticity starkly illustrates how the operation of globalization enforces notions of women's domesticity and creates contradictory messages about women's place in society, simultaneously pushing women inside and outside the home.
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This forceful study is as ethnographically gripping as it is theoretically sophisticated. Parrenass 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, Parrenas 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)More details
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- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Filipina Migrants and the Force of Domesticity
- 1. Gender Ideologies in the Philippines
- 2. Patriarchy and Neoliberalism in the Globalization of Care
- 3. Gender and Communication in Transnational Migrant Families
- 4. The Place and Placelessness of Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers
- 5. The Derivative Status of Asian American Women
- 6. The U.S. War on Trafficking and the Moral Disciplining of Migrant Women
- Conclusion: Analyzing Gender and Migration from the Philippines
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- About the Author
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