Description
“Important and provocative . . . There are lots of tempting reasons to pick out up Global Woman.” ―The New York Times
Women are moving world wide as never before. But for each and every female executive racking up frequent flier miles, there are multitudes of women whose journeys go unnoticed. Every year, millions leave third world countries to work in the homes, nurseries, and brothels of the first world. This broad-scale transfer of labor ends up in an bizarre displacement, in which the female energy that flows to wealthy countries is subtracted from poor ones―easing a “care deficit” in wealthy countries, whilst creating one back home.
Confronting a range of topics from the fate of Vietnamese mail-order brides to the importation of Mexican nannies in Los Angeles, Global Woman offers an original look at a world increasingly more shaped by mass migration and economic exchange. Collected and with an Introduction by bestselling social critics Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, this groundbreaking anthology reveals a new era in which the main resource extracted from developing nations is no longer gold or silver, but love.