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The Purchase of Intimacy by Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Purchase of Intimacy about?
Title Page, Copyright 1 Contents 7 Acknowledgments 9 PROLOGUE 13 CHAPTER 1 Encounters of Intimacy and Economy 19 CHAPTER 2 Intimacy in Law 59 CHAPTER 3 Coupling 106 CHAPTER 4 Caring Relations 170 CHAPTER 5 Household Commerce 221 CHAPTER 6 Intimate Revelations 299 References 321 Index 359 Publisher:Princeton University Press,Published:2009,ISBN:9781400826759,Related ISBN:9780691130637,Language:English,OCLC:438735618 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 car
Who reads The Purchase of Intimacy?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400826759
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Economics, Finance, Sociology