Paid to Care
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-2770-8 (ISBN)
Paid domestic work in Latin America is often undervalued, underpaid, and underregulated. Exploring a wave of Latin American cultural texts since the 1980s that draw on the personal experiences of paid domestic work or intimate ties to domestic employees, Paid to Care offers insights into the struggles domestic workers face through an analysis of literary testimonials, documentary and fiction films, and works of digital media.
From domestic workers’ experiences of unionization in the 1980s to calls for their rights to be respected today, the cultural texts analyzed in Paid to Care provide additional insight into public debates about paid domestic work. Rachel Randall examines work made in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. The most recent of these texts respond to the Covid-19 pandemic, which put many domestic workers’ health and livelihoods at risk. Engaging with the legal histories of domestic work in multiple distinct national contexts, Randall demonstrates how the legacy of colonialism and slavery shapes the profession even today. Focusing on personal or coproduced cultural representations of domestic workers, Paid to Care explores complex ethical issues relating to consent, mediation, and appropriation.
Rachel Randall is a senior lecturer in Latin American cultural studies at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Children on the Threshold in Contemporary Latin American Cinema and a coeditor of New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Paid Domestic Workers’ Testimonios in Latin America
Chapter 2. Labors of Love? Live-in Domestic Workers in Latin American Fiction Film
Chapter 3. Immaterial Labors: Spectral Domestic Workers in Brazilian and Argentine Documentary
Chapter 4. Domestic Workers in the Digital Domain
Conclusion
Appendix 1. Latin American Testimonios Exploring (Paid) Domestic Work and Published in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries
Appendix 2. Filmography: Latin American Fiction Films Released since 2000 That Feature Paid Domestic Workers in Key Roles
Appendix 3. Filmography: Contemporary Latin American Documentaries That Focus on Paid Domestic or Care Workers
Appendix 4. Filmography: Other Films or Television Shows
Notes
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.02.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 10 b&w photos |
| Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 626 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4773-2770-3 / 1477327703 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4773-2770-8 / 9781477327708 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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