The Traffic in Women's Work: East European Migration and the Making of Europe by

Description: The Traffic in Women's Work by Anca Parvulescu "Welcome to the European family!" When East European countries joined the European Union under this banner after 1989, they agreed to the free movement of goods, services, capital, and persons. In this book, the author analyzes an important niche in this imagined European kinship: the traffic in women. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "Welcome to the European family!" When East European countries joined the European Union under this banner after 1989, they agreed to the free movement of goods, services, capital, and persons. In this book, Anca Parvulescu analyzes an important niche in this imagined European kinship: the traffic in women, or the circulation of East European women in West Europe in marriage and as domestic servants, nannies, personal attendants, and entertainers. Analyzing film, national policies, and an impressive range of work by theorists from Giorgio Agamben to Judith Butler, she develops a critical lens through which to think about the transnational continuum of "womens work." Parvulescu revisits Claude Lévi-Strausss concept of kinship and its rearticulation by second-wave feminists, particularly Gayle Rubin, to show that kinship has traditionally been anchored in the traffic in women. Reading recent cinematic texts that help frame this, she reveals that in contemporary Europe, East European migrant women are exchanged to engage in labor customarily performed by wives within the institution of marriage. Tracing a pattern of what she calls Americanization, Parvulescu argues that these women thereby become responsible for the labor of reproduction. A fascinating cultural study as much about the consequences of the enlargement of the European Union as womens mobility,The Traffic in Womens Workquestions the foundations of the notion of Europe today. Author Biography Anca Parvulescu is associate professor at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Laughter: Notes on a Passion. She lives in St. Louis, MO. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. European Kinship: East European Women Go to Market 2. Import/Export: Housework in an International Frame 3. The Female Homo Sacer : The Traffic in Coerced Reproduction 4. "Give Me Your Passport": The Traffic in Women in a "Europe without Borders" 5. Ways Out: Hospitality and Free Love Notes Index Review "A compelling case for the role of Eastern European women in the creation of a new Europe. [Thanks to the invisible labor of cleaners, housewives, sex workers, caregivers, and other women on the move, the map of Europe is being radically redrawn.] Parvulescus substantial and sophisticated arguments are essential reading for scholars in European studies, gender studies, and transnational studies-as well as anyone interested in bold and boundary-pushing thought." (Rita Felski, University of Virginia)" Review Quote "What is the hidden link between the famous four freedoms on which the European Union is based and the infamous traffic in women? Parvulescu magisterially explores how the one tacitly implies and produces the other. The endless flow of women from East to West is the less glamorous subplot of the celebrated European freedom, implying new postcolonial divisions, raising far-reaching issues not only about gendered labor and the nature of globalization but also fundamental questions about the very nature of the exchange lying at the basis of the social. The book explores these questions with great verve, erudition, and passionate engagement through the spyglass of some exceptionally well-chosen recent films, paving new ways of conceiving feminism and politics." Details ISBN022611824X Author Anca Parvulescu Short Title TRAFFIC IN WOMENS WORK Language English ISBN-10 022611824X ISBN-13 9780226118246 Media Book Format Hardcover Pages 280 Year 2014 Imprint University of Chicago Press Subtitle East European Migration and the Making of Europe Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States Illustrations 30 halftones Publication Date 2014-05-19 AU Release Date 2014-05-19 NZ Release Date 2014-05-19 US Release Date 2014-05-19 UK Release Date 2014-05-19 Publisher The University of Chicago Press DEWEY 305.484120947 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161779679;

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