Domestic Economies

Women, Work, and the American Dream in Los Angeles

Susanna Rosenbaum (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2017
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-7002-4 (ISBN)

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In Domestic Economies, Susanna Rosenbaum examines how two groups of women-Mexican and Central American domestic workers and the predominantly white, middle-class women who employ them-seek to achieve the "American Dream." By juxtaposing their understandings and experiences, she illustrates how immigrant and native-born women strive to reach that ideal, how each group is indispensable to the other's quest, and what a vital role reproductive labor plays in this pursuit. Through in-depth ethnographic research with these women at work, at home, and in the urban spaces of Los Angeles, Rosenbaum positions domestic service as an intimate relationship that reveals two versions of female personhood. Throughout, Rosenbaum underscores the extent to which the ideology of the American Dream is racialized and gendered, exposing how the struggle for personal worth and social recognition is shaped at the intersection of motherhood and paid employment.

Susanna Rosenbaum is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the City College of New York.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Producing In/Visibility in Los Angeles 27
2. Middle-Class Dreaming and the Limits of "Americanness" 49
3. Making Mothers Count 83
4. Organizing, Motherhood, and the Meanings of (Domestic) Work 115
5. Dreaming American 148
Conclusion 177
Notes 185
References 205
Index 225

Erscheinungsdatum	30.01.2018
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8223-7002-6 / 0822370026
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-7002-4 / 9780822370024
Zustand	Neuware