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Contents 6 Acknowledgments 10 Contributors 12 1. Introduction / Eileen Boris and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas 18 Part I. Remaking the Intimate: Technology and Globalization 30 2. Technologies of Caring Labor: From Objects to Affect / Ariel Ducey 35 3. The Transmission of Care: Affective Economies and Indian Call Centers / Kalindi Vora 50 4. Foreign and Domestic: Adoption, Immigration, and Privatization / Laura Briggs 66 5. Selling Genes, Selling Gender: Egg Agencies, Sperm Banks, and the Medical Market in Genetic Material / Rene Almeling 80 6. Gender Labor: Transmen, Femmes, and Collective Work of Transgression / Jane Ward 95 Part II. Creating Intimate Boundaries: Culture and Social Relations 112 7. Traveling Cultures of Servitude: Loyalty and Betrayal in New York and Kolkata / Seemin Qayum and Raka Ray 118 8. My Reward Is Not Money: Deep Alliances and End-of-Life Care among Mexicana Workers and Their Wards / María de la Luz Ibarra 134 9. Cultures of Flirtation: Sex and the Moral Boundaries of Filipina Migrant Hostesses in Tokyo / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas 149 10. Bounded Authenticity and the Commerce of Sex / Elizabeth Bernstein 165 11. Economies of Emotion, Familiarity, Fantasy, and Des

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