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When Jo Green takes a nannying job in London to escape her small-town routine, complicated family, and perfect-on-paper boyfriend Shaun, culture shock doesn't even begin to describe it. Dick and Vanessa Fitzgerald are the most incompatible pair since Tom and Jerry, and their children - glittery warrior pixie Cassandra, bloodthirsty Zak and shy little Tallulah - are downright mystifying. Suddenly village life seems terribly appealing. Then, just as Jo's getting the hang of their designer lifestyle, the Fitzgeralds acquire a new lodger and suddenly she's sharing her nanny flat with the distractingly good-looking but inexplicably moody Josh. So when Shaun turns up, things get even trickier...

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Computer sex --- Lesbians --- Nannies --- Fiction. --- Fiction. --- Fiction.

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Shadow Mothers shines new light on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view: the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the "shadow mothers" they hire. Cameron Lynne Macdonald illuminates both sides of an unequal and complicated relationship. Based on in-depth interviews with professional women and childcare providers- immigrant and American-born nannies as well as European au pairs-Shadow Mothers locates the roots of individual skirmishes between mothers and their childcare providers in broader cultural and social tensions. Macdonald argues that these conflicts arise from unrealistic ideals about mothering and inflexible career paths and work schedules, as well as from the devaluation of paid care work.

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Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Great Britain --- Domestics --- Nannies --- Cleaning personnel --- Motherhood --- Sex role --- Domestics - Great Britain --- Nannies - Great Britain --- Cleaning personnel - Great Britain --- Motherhood - Great Britain --- Sex role - Great Britain --- EMPLOYES DE MAISON --- MATERNITE --- ROLE SELON LE SEXE --- FEMMES --- TRAVAIL ET TRAVAILLEURS --- GRANDE-BRETAGNE --- 1945 --- -GRANDE-BRETAGNE --- 20E SIECLE --- CONDITIONS SOCIALES --- ANGLETERRE --- TRAVAIL --- -Domestics --- 1945-

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In a remarkable pairing, two renowned social critics offer a groundbreaking anthology that examines the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of women worldwide. Women are moving around the globe as never before. But for every female executive racking up frequent flier miles, there are multitudes of women whose journeys go unnoticed. Each year, millions leave Mexico, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and other third world countries to work in the homes, nurseries, and brothels of the first world. This broad-scale transfer of labor associated with women's traditional roles results in an odd displacement. In the new global calculus, the female energy that flows to wealthy countries is subtracted from poor ones, often to the detriment of the families left behind. The migrant nanny--or cleaning woman, nursing care attendant, maid--eases a "care deficit" in rich countries, while her absence creates a "care deficit" back home. Confronting a range of topics, from the fate of Vietnamese mail-order brides to the importation of Mexican nannies in Los Angeles and the selling of Thai girls to Japanese brothels, "Global woman offers an unprecedented look at a world shaped by mass migration and economic exchange on an ever-increasing scale. In fifteen vivid essays--of which only four have been previously published--by a diverse and distinguished group of writers, collected and introduced by best selling authors Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, this anthology reveals a new era in which the main resource extracted from the third world is no longer gold or silver, but love.

Women household employees --- Women foreign workers --- Women --- Minority women --- Nannies --- Prostitution --- Employées de maison --- Travailleuses étrangères --- Femmes --- Femmes issues des minorités --- Bonnes d'enfants --- Employment --- Travail --- Women domestics. --- Women alien labor. --- Nannies. --- Prostitution. --- Employment. --- Employées de maison --- Travailleuses étrangères --- Femmes issues des minorités --- Kvinnor på arbetsmarknaden. --- Hushållsarbete. --- Transnationalisering. --- Migration --- Women household employees. --- Women foreign workers. --- Trabalho feminino. --- Emprego. --- Mulheres (aspectos socioeconômicos). --- Globalisierung. --- Hausgehilfin. --- Frauenarbeit. --- Niedriglohn. --- Transnationalism. --- Genusaspekter. --- Women - Employment. --- Minority women - Employment.