Overview
- Situates embodied commerce and intimate labor within the geographic, temporal, and cultural context of the global economy
- Draws on debates on "immaterial labor" to address the theoretical and moral questions of choice, consent and desire to participate in markets
- Presents the work of top anthropologists who engage in an analytical conversation about different kinds of physically intimate labor
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Globalization and Embodiment (PSGE)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Commodifying Affects, Emotions and Selves
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Front Matter
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Sexualized Bodies on the Market
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Front Matter
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Global Reproductive Commerce
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book illustrates how intimate workers in different socio-cultural contexts negotiate the commercial uses of their sexuality, identity, affect, and bodies, thereby often defying inequality, impoverishment, and resource depletion in their regions. The studies shed light on the multi-faceted experiences of subjects involved in intimate economies, oscillating between personal empowerment and agency, as well as the required subjection to the demands of the current market regime, entailing participation in precarious employment, often involving bodily risk, economic exploitation and stigmatization. The contributions demonstrate the interrelatedness of market intimacy, family economies, and transnational care arrangements, and thereby challenge Western notions of the subject and the free market.
Reviews
“Intimate Economies offers a rich analysis of the embodied experiences of affective, emotional and reproductive labor. Insightful and provocative, this compelling collection shuns polarized thinking and takes an unflinching look at the marketization of bodies and relationships in an unequal world. An important book for a much-needed debate about the politics, economics and complexities of intimacy today.” (Emma Dowling, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Middlesex University, London)
“Intimate Economies radically re-orients the analysis of commercial intimacy by re-focusing attention on the experiences of those engaged in a variety of markets in intimate practices and forms of embodied trade. Bringing together meticulously researched, empirically grounded and theoretically innovative analyses of the complex affective modalities inherent in retail, service and sex work, as well as surrogacy, this is a bold, ground-breaking, andtimely collection.” (Silvia Posocco, Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Adi Moreno is a research fellow at the Haifa Feminist Institute. Her research interests involve family practices, assisted reproduction markets and non-normative forms of parenting in the Israeli LGBT community.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Intimate Economies
Book Subtitle: Bodies, Emotions, and Sexualities on the Global Market
Editors: Susanne Hofmann, Adi Moreno
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Globalization and Embodiment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56036-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc. 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56035-3Published: 04 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71955-6Published: 29 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56036-0Published: 03 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2945-7750
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7769
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 276
Topics: Sociology of the Body, Emotion