aThe 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.a
--Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of "Domestica"
Taking as her subjects migrant Filipina domestic workers in Rome
and Los Angeles, transnational migrant families in the Philippines,
and Filipina migrant entertainers in Tokyo, Parrenas documents the
social, cultural, and political pressures that maintain womenas
domesticity in migration, as well as the ways migrant women and
their children negotiate these adversities.
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 womenas domesticity and creates contradictory messages
about womenas place in society, simultaneously pushing women inside
and outside the home.
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