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Engendering Transnational Transgressions reclaims the transgressive
side of feminist history, challenging hegemonic norms and the power
of patriarchies. Through the lenses of intersectionality, gender
analysis, and transnational feminist theory, it addresses the
political in public and intimate spaces. The book begins by
highlighting the transgressive nature of feminist historiography.
It then divides into two parts-Part I, Intimate Transgressions:
Marriage and Sexuality, examines marriage and divorce as viewed
through a transnational lens, and Part II, Global Transgressions:
Networking for Justice and Peace, considers political and social
violence as well as struggles for relief, redemption, and change by
transnational networks of women. Chapters are archivally grounded
and take a critical approach that underscores the local in the
global and the significance of intersectional factors within the
intimate. They bring into conversation literatures too often
separated: history of feminisms and anti-war,
anti-imperial/anti-fascist, and related movements, on the one hand,
and studies of gender crossings, marriage reconstitution, and
affect and subjectivities, on the other. In so doing, the book
encourages the reader to rethink standard interpretations of
rights, equality, and recognition. This is the ideal volume for
students and scholars of Women's and Gender History and Women's and
Gender Studies, as well as International, Transnational, and Global
History, History of Social Movements, and related specialized
topics.
Engendering Transnational Transgressions reclaims the transgressive
side of feminist history, challenging hegemonic norms and the power
of patriarchies. Through the lenses of intersectionality, gender
analysis, and transnational feminist theory, it addresses the
political in public and intimate spaces. The book begins by
highlighting the transgressive nature of feminist historiography.
It then divides into two parts-Part I, Intimate Transgressions:
Marriage and Sexuality, examines marriage and divorce as viewed
through a transnational lens, and Part II, Global Transgressions:
Networking for Justice and Peace, considers political and social
violence as well as struggles for relief, redemption, and change by
transnational networks of women. Chapters are archivally grounded
and take a critical approach that underscores the local in the
global and the significance of intersectional factors within the
intimate. They bring into conversation literatures too often
separated: history of feminisms and anti-war,
anti-imperial/anti-fascist, and related movements, on the one hand,
and studies of gender crossings, marriage reconstitution, and
affect and subjectivities, on the other. In so doing, the book
encourages the reader to rethink standard interpretations of
rights, equality, and recognition. This is the ideal volume for
students and scholars of Women's and Gender History and Women's and
Gender Studies, as well as International, Transnational, and Global
History, History of Social Movements, and related specialized
topics.
What do home health aides, call center operators, prostitutes,
sperm donors, nail manicurists, and housecleaners have in common?
Around the world, they make their livings through touch, closeness,
and personal care. Their labors, both paid and unpaid, sustain the
day-to-day work that we require to survive. This book takes a close
look at carework, domestic work, and sex work in everyday life and
illuminates the juncture where money and intimacy meet.
Intimate labor is presented as a comprehensive category of
investigation into gender, race, class, and other power relations
in the context of global economic transformations. In chronicling
the history of intimate labor in light of the rise and devolution
of welfare states, women's workforce participation, family
formation, the expansion of sex work into new industries, and the
development of institutions for dependent people, this wide-ranging
reader advances debates over the relationship between care and
economy.
Homeworkers in Global Perspective documents the lives of
homeworkers, exploring state policies towards them, and describing
the innovative ways in which homeworkers organize. Moving away from
well-known, already explored cases, the essays focus on less-known
but equally compelling examples organize, and covers the major
geographic regions of the world and illustrates the diversity of
home-based work and homeworker organizing.
Around the world, hundreds of millions of labor migrants endure
exploitation, lack of basic rights, and institutionalized
discrimination and marginalization. What dynamics and drivers have
created a world in which such a huge--and rapidly growing--group
toils as marginalized men and women, existing as a lower caste
institutionally and juridically? In what ways did labor migrants
shape their living and working conditions in the past, and what
opportunities exist for them today? Global Labor Migration presents
new multidisciplinary, transregional perspectives on issues
surrounding global labor migration. The essays go beyond
disciplinary boundaries, with sociologists, ethnographers, legal
scholars, and historians contributing research that extends
comparison among and within world regions. Looking at migrant
workers from the late nineteenth century to the present day, the
contributors illustrate the need for broader perspectives that
study labor migration over longer timeframes and from wider
geographic areas. The result is a unique, much-needed collection
that delves into one of the world's most pressing issues, generates
scholarly dialogue, and proposes cutting-edge research agendas and
methods. Contributors: Bridget Anderson, Rutvica Andrijasevic,
Katie Bales, Jenny Chan, Penelope Ciancanelli, Felipe Barradas
Correia Castro Bastos, Eileen Boris, Charlie Fanning, Judy Fudge,
Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres, Heidi Gottfried, Julie Greene, Justin
Jackson, Radhika Natarajan, Pun Ngai, Bastiaan Nugteren, Nicola
Piper, Jessica R. Pliley, Devi Sacchetto, Helen Sampson, Yael
Schacher, Joo-Cheong Tham, and Matt Withers
From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet
the needs of the entire nation. Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric
S. Yellin edit a collection of new research on this understudied
workforce. Part One begins in the late nineteenth- and early
twentieth century to explore how questions of race, class, and
gender shaped public workers, their workplaces, and their place in
American democracy. In Part Two, essayists examine race and gender
discrimination while revealing the subtle contemporary forms of
marginalization that keep Black men and Black and white women
underpaid and overlooked for promotion. The historic labor actions
detailed in Part Three illuminate how city employees organized not
only for better pay and working conditions but to seek recognition
from city officials, the public, and the national labor movement.
Part Four focuses on nurses and teachers to address the thorny
question of whether certain groups deserve premium pay for their
irreplaceable work and sacrifices or if serving the greater good is
a reward unto itself. Contributors: Eileen Boris, Cathleen D.
Cahill, Frederick W. Gooding Jr., William P. Jones, Francis Ryan,
Jon Shelton, Joseph E. Slater, Katherine Turk, Eric S. Yellin, and
Amy Zanoni
This catalogue presents a site-specific collaboration by Chinese
artist couple Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen (born 1966 and 1963), in
the Wetherill Mansion in Philadelphia. While Song Dong makes use of
found objects, film and video, Yin Xiuzhen is known for fiber and
textile work.
What do home health aides, call center operators, prostitutes,
sperm donors, nail manicurists, and housecleaners have in common?
Around the world, they make their livings through touch, closeness,
and personal care. Their labors, both paid and unpaid, sustain the
day-to-day work that we require to survive. This book takes a close
look at carework, domestic work, and sex work in everyday life and
illuminates the juncture where money and intimacy meet.
Intimate labor is presented as a comprehensive category of
investigation into gender, race, class, and other power relations
in the context of global economic transformations. In chronicling
the history of intimate labor in light of the rise and devolution
of welfare states, women's workforce participation, family
formation, the expansion of sex work into new industries, and the
development of institutions for dependent people, this wide-ranging
reader advances debates over the relationship between care and
economy.
In the last several decades, U.S. women's history has come of age.
Not only have historians challenged the national narrative on the
basis of their rich explorations of the personal, the social, the
economic, and the political. They have entered into dialogues with
each other over the meaning of women's history itself. In this
collection of seventeen original essays on women's lives from the
colonial period to the present, contributors take the competing
forces of race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, and region into
account. They examine, for example, how conceptions of gender
shaped immigration officials' attitudes towards East Asian
immigrants; how race and gender inequality pervaded the welfare
state; and how color and class shaped Mexican American women's
mobilization for civil and labor rights. Reading the past with all
of the messiness, contradictions, and excitement inherent in real
life, this book is a provocative meditation on the state of the
field.
From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet
the needs of the entire nation. Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric
S. Yellin edit a collection of new research on this understudied
workforce. Part One begins in the late nineteenth- and early
twentieth century to explore how questions of race, class, and
gender shaped public workers, their workplaces, and their place in
American democracy. In Part Two, essayists examine race and gender
discrimination while revealing the subtle contemporary forms of
marginalization that keep Black men and Black and white women
underpaid and overlooked for promotion. The historic labor actions
detailed in Part Three illuminate how city employees organized not
only for better pay and working conditions but to seek recognition
from city officials, the public, and the national labor movement.
Part Four focuses on nurses and teachers to address the thorny
question of whether certain groups deserve premium pay for their
irreplaceable work and sacrifices or if serving the greater good is
a reward unto itself. Contributors: Eileen Boris, Cathleen D.
Cahill, Frederick W. Gooding Jr., William P. Jones, Francis Ryan,
Jon Shelton, Joseph E. Slater, Katherine Turk, Eric S. Yellin, and
Amy Zanoni
In this sweeping narrative history from the Great Depression of the
1930s to the Great Recession of today, Caring for America rethinks
both the history of the American welfare state from the perspective
of care work and chronicles how home care workers eventually became
one of the most vibrant forces in the American labor movement.
Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein demonstrate the ways in which law
and social policy made home care a low-waged job that was
stigmatized as welfare and relegated to the bottom of the medical
hierarchy. For decades, these front-line caregivers labored in the
shadows of a welfare state that shaped the conditions of the
occupation. Disparate, often chaotic programs for home care, which
allowed needy, elderly, and disabled people to avoid
institutionalization, historically paid poverty wages to the
African American and immigrant women who constituted the majority
of the labor force. Yet policymakers and welfare administrators
linked discourses of dependence and independence-claiming that such
jobs would end clients' and workers' "dependence" on the state and
provide a ticket to economic independence. The history of home care
illuminates the fractured evolution of the modern American welfare
state since the New Deal and its race, gender, and class fissures.
It reveals why there is no adequate long-term care in America.
Caring for America is much more than a history of social policy,
however; it is also about a powerful contemporary social movement.
At the front and center of the narrative are the workers-poor women
of color-who have challenged the racial, social, and economic
stigmas embedded in the system. Caring for America traces the
intertwined, sometimes conflicting search of care providers and
receivers for dignity, self-determination, and security. It
highlights the senior citizen and independent living movements; the
civil rights organizing of women on welfare and domestic workers;
the battles of public sector unions; and the unionization of health
and service workers. It rethinks the strategies of the U.S. labor
movement in terms of a growing care work economy. Finally, it makes
a powerful argument that care is a basic right for all and that
care work merits a living wage.
In this sweeping narrative history from the Great Depression of the
1930s to the Great Recession of today, Caring for America rethinks
both the history of the American welfare state from the perspective
of care work and chronicles how home care workers eventually became
one of the most vibrant forces in the American labor movement.
Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein demonstrate the ways in which law
and social policy made home care a low-waged job that was
stigmatized as welfare and relegated to the bottom of the medical
hierarchy.
For decades, these front-line caregivers labored in the shadows of
a welfare state that shaped the conditions of the occupation.
Disparate, often chaotic programs for home care, which allowed
needy, elderly, and disabled people to avoid institutionalization,
historically paid poverty wages to the African American and
immigrant women who constituted the majority of the labor force.
Yet policymakers and welfare administrators linked discourses of
dependence and independence-claiming that such jobs would end
clients' and workers' "dependence" on the state and provide a
ticket to economic independence. The history of home care
illuminates the fractured evolution of the modern American welfare
state since the New Deal and its race, gender, and class fissures.
It reveals why there is no adequate long-term care in America.
Caring for America is much more than a history of social policy,
however; it is also about a powerful contemporary social movement.
At the front and center of the narrative are the workers-poor women
of color-who have challenged the racial, social, and economic
stigmas embedded in the system. Caringfor America traces the
intertwined, sometimes conflicting search of care providers and
receivers for dignity, self-determination, and security. It
highlights the senior citizen and independent living movements; the
civil rights organizing of women on welfare and domestic workers;
the battles of public sector unions; and the unionization of health
and service workers. It rethinks the strategies of the U.S. labor
movement in terms of a growing care work economy. Finally, it makes
a powerful argument that care is a basic right for all and that
care work merits a living wage.
This volume deals with the question of inequality through race, class and gender. Most studies only concern themselves with either class and gender, or with the combination of race or gender. What happens if we throw all three concepts into the analysis? The volume seeks to explore how race, class and gender are interrelated in the study of topics such as social transformation, national identity, sexuality and work. The volume should be of interest to both students and scholars in gender and race studies, labor history, sociology, history, non-Western history.
In the minds of most people, the home has stood apart from the
world of work. Bringing the factory or office into the home
challenges this division. From the 1870s, when New York cigarmakers
attempted to end tenement competition, to New Deal prohibitions in
the 1930s, gender ideologies shaped the battle over homework. But
by the 1980s, the middle-class mother at the keyboard replaced the
victimized immigrant as the symbol of homework. Home to Work
restores the voices of homeworking women to the century-long debate
over their labor. The book also provides a historical context to
the Reaganite lifting of New Deal bans. Where once men's right to
contract precluded regulation, now women's right to employment
undermined prohibition. Whether empowerment comes from rights to
homework or rights as workers depends on whether homeworkers become
visible as workers who happen to mother.
In the minds of most people, the home has stood apart from the world of work. Bringing the factory or office into the home challenges this division. From the 1870s, when New York cigarmakers attempted to end tenement competition, to New Deal prohibitions in the 1930s, gender ideologies shaped the battle over homework. But by the 1980s, the middle-class mother at the keyboard replaced the victimized immigrant as the symbol of homework. Home to Work restores the voices of homeworking women to the century-long debate over their labor. The book also provides a historical context to the Reaganite lifting of New Deal bans. Where once men's right to contract precluded regulation, now women's right to employment undermined prohibition. Whether empowerment comes from rights to homework or rights as workers depends on whether homeworkers become visible as workers who happen to mother.
Around the world, hundreds of millions of labor migrants endure
exploitation, lack of basic rights, and institutionalized
discrimination and marginalization. What dynamics and drivers have
created a world in which such a huge--and rapidly growing--group
toils as marginalized men and women, existing as a lower caste
institutionally and juridically? In what ways did labor migrants
shape their living and working conditions in the past, and what
opportunities exist for them today? Global Labor Migration presents
new multidisciplinary, transregional perspectives on issues
surrounding global labor migration. The essays go beyond
disciplinary boundaries, with sociologists, ethnographers, legal
scholars, and historians contributing research that extends
comparison among and within world regions. Looking at migrant
workers from the late nineteenth century to the present day, the
contributors illustrate the need for broader perspectives that
study labor migration over longer timeframes and from wider
geographic areas. The result is a unique, much-needed collection
that delves into one of the world's most pressing issues, generates
scholarly dialogue, and proposes cutting-edge research agendas and
methods. Contributors: Bridget Anderson, Rutvica Andrijasevic,
Katie Bales, Jenny Chan, Penelope Ciancanelli, Felipe Barradas
Correia Castro Bastos, Eileen Boris, Charlie Fanning, Judy Fudge,
Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres, Heidi Gottfried, Julie Greene, Justin
Jackson, Radhika Natarajan, Pun Ngai, Bastiaan Nugteren, Nicola
Piper, Jessica R. Pliley, Devi Sacchetto, Helen Sampson, Yael
Schacher, Joo-Cheong Tham, and Matt Withers
This collection of personal narratives by former officers of the
Coordinating Council for Women in History weaves together past and
present in women s history, and women in the historical profession.
Recording the diverse paths taken to become historians, essays
describe how a group of women negotiated the often competing
demands of being a woman, a professional, and a political activist
during the turbulent 1960s through the challenges of the
1990s."
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