Important and provocative . . . There are many tempting reasons to
pick up Global Woman. --The New York Times
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 third world
countries to work in the homes, nurseries, and brothels of the first
world. This broad-scale transfer of labor results in an odd
displacement, in which the female energy that flows to wealthy
countries is subtracted from poor ones--easing a care deficit in rich
countries, while 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 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.
