Description: Purchase of Intimacy, Paperback by Zelizer, Viviana A., ISBN 0691130639, ISBN-13 9780691130637, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
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 lifes 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 wifes income equals or surpasses her husbands, 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 partners 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 advics 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.
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Book Title: Purchase of Intimacy
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Purchase of Intimacy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 2007
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Marriage & Long-Term Relationships, Sociology / General, Economics / General, Interpersonal Relations, Personal Finance / General
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Viviana A. Zelizer
Item Length: 9.4 in
Subject Area: Family & Relationships, Social Science, Psychology, Business & Economics
Item Width: 7.5 in
Format: Perfect
