Essays about: "intimate labor"

Found 5 essays containing the words intimate labor.

1. 1. Mai Mamma: An exploratory qualitative case study of Apulian mothers' perception of childcare

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Francesco Saverio Demarinis; [2023]
   Keywords : care work; social reproduction; love labor; mothering; Puglia; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : In Italy, ideas surrounding family and motherhood seem to be unveiled as myths rather than values. Despite the historical prominence of these notions within the national political and social agenda, the country's support to families and predominantly female caregivers remains severely inadequate. READ MORE

3. 2. Economic Empowerment: Protection or Risk? : - A quantitative study on economic empowerment and intimate partner violence

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Signe Wiktorsson; [2022]
   Keywords : violence against women; intimate partner violence; IPV; intimate partner violence against women; IPVAW; economic empowerment; marital dependency theory; relative resource theory;

   Abstract : Violence against women is an issue faced by women all over the world. Violence conducted by a partner or husband is the most common form of violence that women are targeted by. Intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) is internationally recognized as a human rights violation as well as a major global health issue. READ MORE

4. 3. Public Childcare and Female Empowerment: Evidence from Mexico

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Mia Hoffmann; [2019]
   Keywords : Female empowerment; Intimate partner violence; Household bargaining; Public childcare; Transition economies; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Despite ample evidence on the importance of labor market opportunities for women’s bargaining power, the link between public childcare availability and female empowerment has so far been widely overlooked. Using detailed survey data on household dynamics, this paper investigates the impact of the Mexican childcare program Estancias Infantiles para Apoyar a Madres Trabajadoras on women’s decision-making power and the prevalence of intimate partner violence. READ MORE

5. 4. NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISM AND DEBILITATION: A case study of disability, political economy & environment in Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Jamie Woodworth; [2017]
   Keywords : Prognosis; Risk; Labor; Marxism; Crip Theory; Gender Studies; Environment; Disability; Human Ecology; Body Politics; Neoliberalism; Capitalism; Sweden; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to explore how disability can be mobilised as an analytical category in a critique of neoliberal capitalism as it affects laborers, their bodies, and their socio-economic as well as ecological environment. In particular, I unpack how and why the body is rendered able and unable by political economy, and how the labor market instantiates hegemonic norms of ability. READ MORE

6. 5. Merit Making, Money and Motherhood : Women's Experiences of Commercial Surrogacy in Thailand

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskap

   Author : Elina Nilsson; [2015]
   Keywords : transnational commercial surrogacy; Thailand; motherhood; intimate labor; stratified reproduction; surrogatmödraskap; Thailand; moderskap; intimt arbete; stratifierad reproduktion;

   Abstract : This thesis explores transnational commercial surrogacy in the context of Thailand, with the specific purpose to examine Thai women’s motives and experiences of being a surrogate mother. The study is based on two months of fieldwork in Bangkok between June and August 2014 during which interviews were conducted with eleven former, current or future surrogate mothers. READ MORE