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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bloch, Alexia. Sex, love, and migration. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017 (DLC) 2017027191 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alexia Bloch |
ISBN: | 9781501713149 1501713140 9781501713156 1501713159 |
OCLC Number: | 1017954869 |
Description: | 272 pages |
Contents: | Magnificent centuries and economies of desire -- Gender, labor, and emotion in a global economy -- We are like slaves, who needs capitalism? : intimate economies and marginal, mobile households -- Strategic intimacy, "real love," and marriage -- Intimate currencies : mobilizing sex "without hang-ups," love, and romance -- Other mothers and a transnational nurturing nexus. |
Responsibility: | Alexia Bloch. |
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"Captivatingly written and rich with thick descriptions that virtually transport the reader to the featured locations and people, Sex, Love, and Migration makes an impressive contribution to the scholarship on gender and transnational migration in postsocialist societies." * REGION * "Sex, Love, and Migration makes a significant contribution to the anthropologies of postsocialism, migration, and gendered labor. Using the concepts of affect, emotional labor, and structures of feeling, Alexia Bloch skillfully and engagingly guides readers through many of the positionalities comprising multinational and multigenerational networks of migrant women and those they leave behind." * American Ethnologist * "These estimable monographs on postsocialist space reflect upon the plight of families as they seek ethical and economic identities and develop care-giving practices and strategies in landscapes haunted by globalization." * Slavic Review * Read more...

