[PDF] The New Maids eBook

Author : Professor Helma Lutz
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1780322372

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The New Maids is a pioneering book, grounded on rich, empirical evidence, which examines the relationship between globalization, transnationalism, gender and the care economy. Expertly addressing the thorny questions that surround the increasing number of migrant domestic workers and cleaners, child-carers and caregivers who maintain modern Western households, the author argues that domestic work plays the defining role in global ethnic and gender hierarchies. Using a central ethnographic study of immigrant domestic workers and their German employees as its starting point, The New Maids uses the voices of such women themselves to provide unique conceptual and evidential support for this vital new approach argument. This exciting book will not only enhance the reader's understanding of the new care-economy, it also sets standards for feminist global methodology.

Author : Professor Helma Lutz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1848132891

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The New Maids is a pioneering book, grounded on rich, empirical evidence, which examines the relationship between globalization, transnationalism, gender and the care economy. Expertly addressing the thorny questions that surround the increasing number of migrant domestic workers and cleaners, child-carers and caregivers who maintain modern Western households, the author argues that domestic work plays the defining role in global ethnic and gender hierarchies. Using a central ethnographic study of immigrant domestic workers and their German employees as its starting point, The New Maids uses the voices of such women themselves to provide unique conceptual and evidential support for this vital new approach argument. This exciting book will not only enhance the reader's understanding of the new care-economy, it also sets standards for feminist global methodology.

Author : Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,44 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811224925

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A major discovery: Tanizaki's wonderful final novel--now in English

Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780805075090

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Two social scientists chart the consequences of the global economy on women across the world, revealing the underground economy that has turned many poor women into virtual slaves.

Author : Katie Skelly
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1683963687

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The scandalous true crime story about the Papin Sisters, as told by one of comics' most stylized talents. Christine Papin, an overworked live-in maid, is reunited with her younger sister, Lea, who has also been hired by the wealthy Lancelin family. They make the estate's beds, scrub the floors, and spy on the domestic strife that routinely occurs within its walls. What starts as petty theft by the maids ― who are flashing back to their tumultuous time in a convent ― shortly turns into something more nefarious. Madame Lancelin’s increasingly unhinged abuse ignites the sisters' toxic upbringing and social class exploitation and explodes into a ghastly double murder, an event that shocked and fascinated 1930s France and beyond. Maids has high bravura and high intrigue, all drawn in Skelly’s highly stylized manner, which combines the best of pop art, manga, and Eurocomics.

Author : Maureen Paraventi
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,73 MB
Release : 2017-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781937793463

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Maureen Paraventi reveals the changing life as a single women. Ranging from living single by choice to the loss of negative terms around single women. The women featured in The New Old Maid tell their stories with unflinching honesty and wry self-awareness, whether they¿re discussing unhappy childhoods, men who didn¿t measure up, or the fun and frustrations that come with being independent.In addition to sharing the stories of real-life women, The New Old Maid takes a look at how depictions of fictional old maids in books, movies, stage plays and TV shows have evolved over time ¿ and explains why such portrayals matter.The New Old Maid speaks to a topic that¿s trending and a demographic that¿s growing. The percentage of never-married women in the U.S. has been on the rise for decades, with more women identifying as single and eager to discuss what that means, especially in blogs.Maureen Paraventi is a journalist, novelist and award-winning playwright whose works include Palm Tree Pipe Dreams and The Bucket List of Booze Club. She is also an actor and singer who performers with McLaughlin¿s Alley, a Detroit pop/rock/Irish band.

Author : Aife Murray
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 10,87 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781584656746

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A startlingly original work establishing the impact of domestic servants on the life and writings of Emily Dickinson

Author : Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 29,54 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9956558125

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One day, Mama Ngonsu told her son: "Normally, a child grew up and stayed around to help his parents. The world has changed, and things are no longer as they used to be. Things must not be normal all the time, otherwise life would not be life." When Emmanuel Kwanga gets a University scholarship, he travels from the lake and hills of Abehema to the Great City. Everyone in the village has invested in him their hopes for the good life. When the life they've imagined is cut short by the University guillotine, Emmanuel Kwanga must struggle to make sense of what the good life means - for himself and for Abehema - in a world where things are no longer as they used to be. This novel is about coming of age and coming to terms in Mimboland. It is also about the fragility of life and the strength of the human spirit. The filth and screaming splendor of the city and the perplexed tranquility of the village are juxtaposed, as the tension and conviviality between tradition and modernity are lived and explored. Roads and drivers, dreams and public transport link different geographies. Faltering along or speeding away, these spaces of risk, frustration and solidarity are filled with popular songs as vehicles for understanding events and relationships. With every crossing of the Pont de Maturit the story flows, and its mysteries surge. In this novel, the worlds of the living and the dead intermingle, as do the natural and the supernatural, the visible and the invisible.

Author : Clare B. Dunkle
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 25,69 MB
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1429951222

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Young Tabby Aykroyd has been brought to the dusty mansion of Seldom House to be nursemaid to a foundling boy. He is a savage little creature, but the Yorkshire moors harbor far worse, as Tabby soon discovers. Why do scores of dead maids and masters haunt Seldom House with a jealous devotion that extends beyond the grave? As Tabby struggles to escape the evil forces rising out of the land, she watches her young charge choose a different path. Long before he reaches the old farmhouse of Wuthering Heights, the boy who will become Heathcliff has doomed himself and any who try to befriend him.

Author : Stephanie Land
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 39,37 MB
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316505102

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"A single mother's personal, unflinching look at America's class divide (Barack Obama)," this New York Times bestselling memoir is the inspiration for the Netflix limited series, hailed by Rolling Stone as "a great one." At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet. Maid is an emotionally raw, masterful account of Stephanie's years spent in service to upper middle class America as a "nameless ghost" who quietly shared in her clients' triumphs, tragedies, and deepest secrets. Driven to carve out a better life for her family, she cleaned by day and took online classes by night, writing relentlessly as she worked toward earning a college degree. She wrote of the true stories that weren't being told: of living on food stamps and WIC coupons, of government programs that barely provided housing, of aloof government employees who shamed her for receiving what little assistance she did. Above all else, she wrote about pursuing the myth of the American Dream from the poverty line, all the while slashing through deep-rooted stigmas of the working poor. Maid is Stephanie's story, but it's not hers alone. It is an inspiring testament to the courage, determination, and ultimate strength of the human spirit. "A single mother's personal, unflinching look at America's class divide, a description of the tightrope many families walk just to get by, and a reminder of the dignity of all work." -PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, Obama's Summer Reading List