Professional Documents
Culture Documents
multidisciplinary perspective
Required books (available at the Rutgers bookstore) :
Ehrenreich, Barbara and Arlie Hochschild, eds. 2002. Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy.
Metropolitan Books.
Trenka, Jane Jeong, Julia Chinyere Oparah, and Sun Yung Shin, eds. 2006. Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption.
Cambridge, MA: South End Press.
Constable, Nicole. 2003. Romance on the Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography and Mail Order Brides. Berkeley:
University of California Press.
All other readings are available through sakai.
Films: All films listed are required and will be on the quizzes and in papers. A few are required to be viewed prior to class meetings,
as noted week by week below. You are encouraged to view them with the class on Thursday mornings in the Media Center in the
basement of Douglass Library. Start times vary depending on length of the film. Alternately, you may view them on your own at
Douglass Music/Media library in the Douglass library basement during the week prior to screening. Call ahead for availability at
(848) 932-9783x5 or (848) 932-9411x5. Media Library hours: M-Th 9AM-11PM, F 9AM-9PM, Sa 10AM-6PM, Su Noon - 6P.
--Hoang, Kimberly Kay. 2010. Economies of Emotion, Familiarity, Fantasy, and Desire: Emotional Labor in Ho Chi Minh Citys Sex
Industry. In Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care. Eileen Boris and Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, eds. Pp.
166-182. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Film (View before class at 11 AM): Cowboys in Paradise 2010, 10-2240, 82 mins.
4/2 Week Ten - Sex Work: Geopolitics, Agency and Exploitation
--Parreas, Rhacel. 2006. Trafficked? Filipina Migrant Hostesses in Tokyos Nightlife Industry, Yale Journal of Law and Feminism
18(1): 145-80.
--Alexander, Jacqui. 2005. Imperial Desire/Sexual Utopias: White Gay Capital and Transnational Tourism. In Pedagogies of
Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred. Pp. 66-88. Duke University Press.
--Bales, Kevin. 2002. Because She Looks Like a Child. In Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy.
Pp. 207-229. Metropolitan Books.
Film (View in class): Sacrifice, 1998, 2-5685, 50 mins.
4/9 Week Eleven Love and Work
--Brennan, Denise. 2007. "Love Work in a Tourist Town: Dominican Sex Workers and Resort Workers Perform at Love." In Love and
Globalization: Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World. Ed. Padilla, Mark B. et al.. Pp. 203-225. Nashville, TN:
Vanderbilt University Press.
--Hochschild, Arlie. 2002. Love and Gold. In Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy. Pp. 15-30.
Metropolitan Books.
--Cheng, Sealing. 2007. Romancing the Club: Love Dynamics between Filipina Entertainers and GIs in U.S. Military Camp Towns in
South Korea. In Love and Globalization: Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World. Ed. Padilla, Mark B. et al.. Pp.
226-251. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.
Film (View in class): The Women Outside, 1995, 2-6676, 52 mins.
4/16 Week Twelve Transnational Domestic Work
Prof Schein out of town
--Cheever, Susan. 2002. The Nanny Dilemma. In Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy. Pp. 31-38.
Metropolitan Books.
--Ehrenreich, Barbara. 2002. Maid to Order. In Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy. Pp. 85-103.
Metropolitan Books.
--Zarembka, Joy M. 2002. Americas Dirty Work: Migrant Maids and Modern-Day Slavery. In Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and
Sex Workers in the New Economy. Pp. 142-153. Metropolitan Books.
Film (View in class): Brown Women, Blonde Babies (note: first video on Fresh Looks Cassette #2), 1993, 2-2818, 28 mins.
Film: (View in class): A Foreign Affair: Two Brothers and a Bride, 2004, 2-7648, 92 mins.
4/23 Week Thirteen Week Ten Domestic Work: Relations with Employers
INTERNET PAPER DUE IN CLASS
--Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. 2002. Blow-Ups and Other Unhappy Endings. In Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers
in the New Economy. Pp. 55-69. Metropolitan Books.
--Anderson, Bridget. 2002. Just Another Job? The Commodification of Domestic Labor. In Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and
Sex Workers in the New Economy. Pp. 104-114. Metropolitan Books.
--Rivas, Lynn May. 2002. Invisible Labors: Caring for the Independent Person. In Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers
in the New Economy. Pp. 70-84. Metropolitan Books.
Film (View in class): Black Girl, 1965, D-11, 60 mins.
4/30 Week Fourteen Domestic Work: The Families Left Behind and Wrap-Up
--Parrenas, Rhacel. 2005. The Overlooked Second Generation: The Experience of Prolonged Separation in Two-Parent Migrant
Families. In Children of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes. Pp. 141-160. Stanford, CA: Stanford
University Press.
--Gumbard, Michele. 2002. Breadwinner No More. In Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy. Pp.
190-206. Metropolitan Books.
--Agustin, Laura Maria. 2005. Migrants in the Mistresss House: Other Voices in the Trafficking Debate. Social Politics 12(1):96117.
--Sassen, Saskia. 2002. Global Cities and Survival Circuits. In Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New
Economy. Pp. 254-274. Metropolitan Books.
Film (View before class at 10:30): When Mother Comes Home for Christmas, 1995, 2-5499, 109 mins