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Gender, Migration and Domestic Work - Masculinities, Male Labour and Fathering in the UK and USA (Hardcover)
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Gender, Migration and Domestic Work - Masculinities, Male Labour and Fathering in the UK and USA (Hardcover)
Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
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As the rich have got richer and households have become busier,
demand for commoditized household services has increased. While
much is known about maids and nannies, this book is distinctive in
focusing on masculinized domestic services. Through two
case-studies - Polish handymen in the UK and the households that
employ them and Mexican jardineros in the USA - the book
demonstrates how, by outsourcing, householders can mitigate the
"father time-bind" arising from tensions between new expectations
for involved fathering, economic expectations regarding working
hours, and a highly gendered and neo-liberal social policy regime,
and shows how the consequences of this reaches beyond the
households into the lives of the migrant men who work for them.
Through the focus on male domestic work, the book identifies
distinctly gendered understandings of domestic work and care, and
shows how these influence the differential economic value of and
emotional attachment to different forms of domestic work, and the
gendered identities of those supplying and buying these services.
In doing so, the book reveals much about the dynamic and varied
understandings of masculinity.
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