The Purchase of Intimacy /
Zelizer, Viviana A.
The Purchase of Intimacy / Viviana A. Zelizer. - Course Book - 1 online resource (368 p.) : 2 tables.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. Encounters of Intimacy and Economy -- Chapter 2. Intimacy in Law -- Chapter 3. Coupling -- Chapter 4. Caring Relations -- Chapter 5. Household Commerce -- Chapter 6. Intimate Revelations -- References -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691130637 9781400826759
10.1515/9781400826759 doi
Couples--Finance, Personal.
Financial security.
Interpersonal relations--Economic aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
HG179 .Z45 2007
332.024 332.024/01/0865 332.024010865
The Purchase of Intimacy / Viviana A. Zelizer. - Course Book - 1 online resource (368 p.) : 2 tables.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. Encounters of Intimacy and Economy -- Chapter 2. Intimacy in Law -- Chapter 3. Coupling -- Chapter 4. Caring Relations -- Chapter 5. Household Commerce -- Chapter 6. Intimate Revelations -- References -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691130637 9781400826759
10.1515/9781400826759 doi
Couples--Finance, Personal.
Financial security.
Interpersonal relations--Economic aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
HG179 .Z45 2007
332.024 332.024/01/0865 332.024010865