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positions (2016) 24 (1): 45–69.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Nicole Constable This article explores, ethnographically and critically, migrant women's contributions to three intersecting sectors of “intimate industries” in Asia: domestic work, sex tourism, and adoption. These three sectors are normally understood as separate and distinct, and in the cases...
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positions (2009) 17 (3): 617–642.
Published: 01 August 2009
... 621
migrant women working as baomu.6 Paid domestic work, a line of employ-
ment which has reemerged in urban China since the economic reforms
began in the late 1970s, has become an increasingly common commodity...
Journal Article
positions (2014) 22 (1): 103–130.
Published: 01 February 2014
...Yoon Sun Yang Yi Injik's Tears of Blood (1906) is the pioneering piece of “new fiction” ( sin sosŏl ). As many works of this male-authored genre revolve around women's conflicts regarding marriage, family, and home life, literary critics often condescendingly disregard them as domestic fiction...
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 947–985.
Published: 01 November 2013
... cult of domesticity and motherhood had its basis in the
fledgling colonial middle class: only middle-class women, who could count
on the cheap labor of the working class, could devote themselves to home-
making and child rearing without...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 487–513.
Published: 01 August 2015
... further
reinforced the link between women and unpaid work that characterized
the postwar period beyond the boundaries of the domestic sphere.
During the era of economic high growth, even when women worked for
a wage...
Journal Article
positions (2019) 27 (3): 437–468.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Jiyoung Suh This article examines the presence of Korean housemaids who worked for Japanese settlers in colonial Korea, 1910–45, and its connection to the urban landscape in the colony. It provides a historical investigation of the Korean housemaids who emerged among female workers in the urban...
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positions (2014) 22 (1): 7–39.
Published: 01 February 2014
..., but something that might be associated with the queer, a form of defiance aiming to “undo restrictively normative conceptions” of sexuality and gender. After considering Byun as an icon of transgressive gender and sexuality, this essay delves into her queer camera work and visual narrative structure...
Journal Article
positions (2009) 17 (1): 43–72.
Published: 01 February 2009
... to solve Japan's domestic and international problems. During this prior period of Miki's “world-historical questions,” he never offered any suggestions as to what these new universally valid principles might be and worked with a questioning attitude marked by extreme epistemological doubt. In addition...
Journal Article
positions (2019) 27 (2): 297–332.
Published: 01 May 2019
...-a-case-of-self-denial/ . Tan Tai-Yong . 2007 . “ Port Cities and Hinterlands: A Comparative Study of Singapore and Calcutta .” Political Geography 26 , no. 7 : 851 – 65 . Tolentino Rolando B. 2009 . “ Globalizing National Domesticity, Female Work, and Representation...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 303–331.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Maghiel van Crevel Abstract Xiao Hai left home at age fifteen as one of roughly three hundred million domestic migrant workers whose labor has contributed to China's rise since the 1980s. He was a factory worker in a string of cities for a good dozen years: think assembly line, overtime...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 379–402.
Published: 01 May 2023
... inside and outside multiple workplaces; at the intersection of factory, service, volunteer, and domestic labor; encompassing urban and rural, waged and unwaged, (re)productive and distributive, and on- and offline work. By detailing the interactions between these multiple forms of labor, the article...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 41–66.
Published: 01 February 2023
...” Singaporean self‐imagining, a porosity that calls for magical and magico‐bureaucratic interventions to set right. [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Southeast Asia Singapore magic migration domestic work race horror In the late spring and summer...
Journal Article
positions (2010) 18 (2): 373–398.
Published: 01 May 2010
... by a pro-
found sense of gendered shame surrounding modern sex/domestic work,
and she traces the formation of this particular affect to the lingering cul-
tural memory of the “bondmaid-concubine” (beiqie), a base figure sold...
Journal Article
positions (2010) 18 (2): 321–349.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., the
women’s movement and feminism, more or less in tandem with the political
opposition movement and party, achieved nationwide recognition for many
of their concerns, particularly in the fields of equal pay for equal work, fam-
ily law, domestic...
Journal Article
positions (2016) 24 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 February 2016
... that organize, enable, or delimit the trade
in domestic labor (Nicole Constable, Pei-Chia Lan), marriage migration
(Danièle Bélanger), companionship and romance (Hae Yeon Choo), sex
work (Constable), pornographic performance (Celine Parreñas Shimizu...
Journal Article
positions (2016) 24 (1): 253–279.
Published: 01 February 2016
... to implement long-term elder care and other social security
programs.21 Migrant domestic care workers, however, are not protected by
Taiwan’s Labor Standards Law, because they work in the private sphere of
family.
The current...
Journal Article
positions (2011) 19 (2): 551–579.
Published: 01 May 2011
... of migrant work, which would at the same time
“represent the best in Filipino values.”5
Anak is the story of Josie, a Filipina domestic helper (DH) who works in
Hong Kong and returns to her children. Observant of the rituals of self...
Journal Article
positions (2022) 30 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 May 2022
... : Stanford University Press . Parreñas Rhacel . 2015 . Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Piper Nicola , 2017 . “ Global Governance of Labour Migration: From ‘Management’ of Migration to an Integrated Rights-Based...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 27–47.
Published: 01 February 2024
... of the good life in the domestic sphere are highly charged with gendered assumptions. Moreover, the increased use of modern kitchen gadgets does not necessarily mean that women spend less time on housework, as Ruth Schwartz Cowan ( 1983 ) cogently shows in More Work for Mother . As standards of cleanliness...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 229–256.
Published: 01 May 2011
... by the massive deployment of overseas contract workers (OCWs; as
much as two-thirds are women), the greater sexualization of female domestic
labor (sex work and trafficking as an extreme yet common feature; pigeon-
holed in “3D” jobs...
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