By Viviana A. Zelizer
ISBN-10: 0691124086
ISBN-13: 9780691124087
In their own lives, humans examine it necessary to separate economics and intimacy. we now have, for instance, a long-standing taboo opposed to place of work romance, whereas we see marital love as various from prostitution since it isn't a essentially monetary trade. In The buy of Intimacy, Viviana Zelizer mounts a provocative problem to this view. attending to the guts of 1 of life's maximum taboos, she indicates how all of us use fiscal job to create, retain, and renegotiate very important ties--especially intimate ties--to folks.
In lifestyle, we make investments severe attempt and fear to strike the appropriate stability. for instance, while a wife's source of revenue equals or surpasses her husband's, how even more time may still the fellow commit to loved ones chores or baby care? occasionally criminal disputes come up. may still the surviving associate in a same-sex courting have obtained repayment for a partner's loss of life because of September 11?
Through a bunch of compelling examples, Zelizer indicates us why fee is primary to 3 key components of intimacy: sexually tinged family; well-being care by means of relations, neighbors, and execs; and family economics. She attracts either on examine and fabrics starting from reviews on reimbursement to survivors of 11th of September sufferers to monetary administration websites and suggestion books for same-sex undefined.
From the bed room to the court, The buy of Intimacy opens a desirable new window at the internal workings of the industrial strategies that pervade our inner most lives.
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As we will see, relations of sexual intimacy frequently include transfers of money. Those involved, however, are careful to establish whether the relationship is a marriage, courtship, prostitution, or some other different sort of social tie. In the absence of sexual intimacy, people also establish fine distinctions, for example, among caring services provided by physicians, nurses, spouses, children, neighbors, or live-in servants. In each case, participants and observers frequently engage in fierce debates about the propriety of different forms and levels of compensation for the caring attention involved.
In each case, participants and observers frequently engage in fierce debates about the propriety of different forms and levels of compensation for the caring attention involved. They often ban certain combinations of relations, transactions, and media as utterly improper. Later chapters of this book will provide innumerable examples of variation and moral boundary drawing. They will even propose explanations for variation and moral boundary drawing in intimate social relations. Take the case of psychotherapy.
Relations consist of durable, named sets of understandings, practices, rights, and obligations that link two or more persons. Transactions consist of bounded, short-term interactions between persons. Media consist of accounting systems and their tokens. Boundaries consist, in this case, of known perimeters drawn around distinctive combinations of relations, transactions, and media. Relational work involves creating viable matches among relations, transactions, media, and boundaries. When it comes to economic activity—transactions involving production, distribution, and consumption of valuable goods and services—people mark relevant boundaries by identifying acceptable matches of relations, transactions, and media.
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