Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Purchase of IntimacyCondition: NewAuthor: Viviana A. ZelizerFormat: PaperbackISBN-10: 0691130639EAN: 9780691130637ISBN: 9780691130637Publisher: Princeton University PressGenre: Business & FinanceTopic: Society & Culture, Social SciencesRelease Date: 04/15/2007Description: 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 life's 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 wife's income equals or surpasses her husband's, 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 partner's 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 advice books 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 539gRelease Year: 2007 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Purchase of Intimacy
Title: The Purchase of Intimacy
ISBN-10: 0691130639
EAN: 9780691130637
ISBN: 9780691130637
Genre: Business & Finance
Topic: Social Sciences
Release Date: 04/15/2007
Release Year: 2007
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
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
