| Edition |
Course Book. |
| Description |
1 online resource (368 p.) |
| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-345) and index. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. Encounters of Intimacy and Economy -- Chapter 2. Intimacy in Law -- Chapter 3. Coupling -- Chapter 4. Caring Relations -- Chapter 5. Household Commerce -- Chapter 6. Intimate Revelations -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
In their personal lives, people consider it essential to separate economics and intimacy. We have, for example, a long-standing taboo against workplace romance, while we see marital love as different from prostitution because it is not a fundamentally financial exchange. In The Purchase of Intimacy, Viviana Zelizer mounts a provocative challenge to this view. Getting to the heart of one of life's greatest taboos, she shows how we all use economic activity to create, maintain, and renegotiate important ties--especially intimate ties--to other people. In everyday life, we invest intense effort and worry to strike the right balance. For example, when a wife's income equals or surpasses her husband's, how much more time should the man devote to household chores or child care? Sometimes legal disputes arise. Should the surviving partner in a same-sex relationship have received compensation for a partner's death as a result of 9/11? Through a host of compelling examples, Zelizer shows us why price is central to three key areas of intimacy: sexually tinged relations; health care by family members, friends, and professionals; and household economics. She draws both on research and materials ranging from reports on compensation to survivors of 9/11 victims to financial management Web sites and advice books for same-sex couples. From the bedroom to the courtroom, The Purchase of Intimacy opens a fascinating new window on the inner workings of the economic processes that pervade our private lives. |
| Language |
English. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019). |
| Subject |
Financial security.
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Interpersonal relations -- Economic aspects.
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Couples -- Finance, Personal.
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Couples -- Finance, Personal.
(OCoLC)fst00881568
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Financial security. (OCoLC)fst00924735
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| Other Form: |
0-691-13063-9 |
| ISBN |
9786612157790 |
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6612157798 |
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1282157795 |
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9781282157798 |
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1400826756 |
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9781400826759 |
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0691124086 |
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9780691124087 |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9781400826759 doi |
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