In their personal lives, people consider it essential to separate economics and intimacy. We have, for example, a long-standing taboo against workplace romance, while we see marital love as different from prostitution because it is not a fundamentally financial exchange. In "The Purchase of Intimacy", Viviana Zelizer mounts a provocative challenge to this view. Getting to the h...
In their personal lives, people consider it essential to separate economics and intimacy. We have, for example, a long-standing taboo against workplace romance, while we see marital love as different from prostitution because it is not a fundamentally financial exchange. In "The Purchase of Intimacy", Viviana Zelizer mounts a provocative challenge to this view. Getting to the heart of one of life's greatest taboos, she shows how we all use economic activity to create, maintain, and renegotiate important ties - especially intimate ties - to other people. In everyday life, we invest intense effort and worry to strike the right balance. For example, when a wife's income equals or surpasses her husband's, how much more time should the man devote to household chores or child care? Sometimes legal disputes arise. Should the surviving partner in a same-sex relationship have received compensation for a partner's death as a result of 9/11? Through a host of compelling examples, Zelizer shows us why price is central to three key areas of intimacy: sexually tinged relations; health care by family members, friends, and professionals; and household economics. She draws both on research and materials ranging from reports on compensation to survivors of 9/11 victims to financial management Web sites and advice books for same-sex couples. From the bedroom to the courtroom, "The Purchase of Intimacy" opens a fascinating new window on the inner workings of the economic processes that pervade our private lives.
作者简介
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Viviana A. Zelizer is Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. Her previous books include The Social Meaning of Money and Pricing the Priceless Child (both Princeton) and Morals and Markets.
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0 有用 真猪奶茶 2018-07-18 14:05:06
the overlap of economic activities and intimacy: not mutually exclusive but complementary
0 有用 獨立縱隊 2022-04-21 00:42:02
可以压缩为一篇论文。relational work啥的还有点意思，其他的就是堆例子，没有分析深度。
0 有用 halfmoon 2022-10-24 17:33:31 中国香港
只看了需要的章节
0 有用 一颗柠檬水儿 2024-03-01 13:16:48 湖北
relational labor和connected world两个概念就是全书核心。商品逻辑鹤亲密关系并非对立，而是相互渗透。
0 有用 月亮脸 2023-03-14 08:42:50 美国
Not moraltity, but moralization.对relational work的应用往往缺失了泽利泽的批判性，把它用成关系网络类似物。