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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"reproductive labor"”.
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Ambattar: Unfreedom, mobility, and women’s reproductive labor in the North Atlantic world, 750-1050
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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Revisting the Domestic Labor Debate: Toward a Critique of Workerist Feminism
… of housewives to the reproduction of labor-power, the character of reproductive labor and the relation between the participation of women in waged labor and unwaged domestic labor. In revisiting this phenomenon, this thesis argues that, contrary to the appearance of women being …
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The Culture of Sterilization: Understanding the Desire for Female Surgical Sterilization Among Women in Brazil
… of everyday conflicts surrounding productive/reproductive labor, sex/gender relations, and their bodies. This study contributes to understanding high rates of female surgical sterilization in Brazil by showing how women are invested in the current contraceptive regime and by highlighting the …
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Making Military Wives: Militarizing Social Reproduction of Military Families
… day. Due to these constraints, military wives’ reproductive labor becomes structured through the ways that institutional practices impact military families. As a result, service members’ military work responsibilities become privileged, which reproduces the gendered division of labor. …
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Post-Internet Queer Reproductive Work and The fixed Capital of Fertility: The Interface, the Network and the Viral as Themes and Modes of artistic Response
… infrastructures and interfaces of the Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) industry as a depository for human memory and a powerful translation zone where beliefs regarding social and biological reproduction are fashioned today. Offering an innovative take on the dynamic interaction between …
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Tradwives: The Housewifization of the Girl Boss
… of domesticity built on the erasure of social reproductive labor. Tracing the lineage of the “housewife” from the enclosure of the commons to imperial domesticity and from the “girl boss” to tradwife influencer culture, this project situates the tradwife within a longer history of …
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Social geographies of seasonal labor migration in rural western India
… in rural western India. My research explains how labor migration has transformed gender, caste, and class relations in the drylands of Maharashtra state in India. I study labor migration as a social process, which accommodates the flows of capital yet expands the literature to account for the …
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Hannah Arendt and Feminist Agency
… and by inappropriately commodifying women’s reproductive labor. To depolarize the debate, I propose a conception of feminist agency that allows for women to exercise agency against aspects of their oppression. Drawing from Hannah Arendt, I contend that feminist agency is a relational …
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Writing as a cultural negotiation: a study of Mariama Bâ, Marie NDiaye and Ama Ata Aidoo
… that motherhood is the equivalent of men’s reproductive labor and a source of oppression suggests that empowerment can be derived from surrogacy and freedom of choice. Chapter Five explores modern day beliefs in witchcraft and its cultural impact on women. From the feminist theoretical …
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Class Inequality among Third World Women Wage Earners: Mistresses and Maids in the Philippines
… N4. Domestic workers, who started as child laborers, live in their mistresses' homes where they perform household chores and carework. Aside from their "job description," they carry out additional tasks within and outside the household. The maids' relationship with their mistresses is based …
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The Janus-face of capitalist labor: gender, race, and work in early modernity
… represent the invention of new forms of labor relations that constituted capitalism in its emergent centuries. As such, these three processes can be taken together as mutually constituted phenomena, interpenetrating and dependent on one another, historically, politically, and …
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Safer without Sex?
… all known ants, are typically characterized by a reproductive division of labor between queens, who are inseminated and reproduce, and virgin workers, who engage in foraging, nest maintenance and brood care. In most species workers have little reproductive options left: They usually produce …