Let us look more closely at legal practices that regulate intersections of intimacy and economic transactions. Legal practice displays a degree of internal coherence and autonomy, but it does not evolve and exist in an entirely separate world. As a first approximation, it helps to distinguish three interacting social phenomena: relational packages, social categories, and […]
Месяц: Октябрь 2015
Intimate Economies and the Law
More generally, the two cases illustrate important points concerning the law’s intervention in intersections of intimacy and economic life. Intimate relations only become legal cases in rare circumstances; most of the time intimately connected people work out their differences without litigation. However, when such private disputes turn into legal suits, courts regularly adopt hostile worlds […]
Intimacy in Law
^Ve return to Louisiana more than a century later. In 1958, supermarket entrepreneur John G. Schwegmann Jr. began dating, and bedding, sixteen-year-old Mary Ann Blackledge. They continued to have sexual relations when they started living together in May 1966. At that point, according to Blackledge, the middle-aged, twice divorced Schwegmann offered to “share everything” with […]
Sexualities on the home front and the battlefront
While the military managed the sexuality of soldiers through the military brothels, the sexuality of men and women on the home front in Japan was also being managed. Patriotic women’s organisations forged a relationship between the departing soldiers and the real and surrogate mothers who bade them farewell as they departed for the front or […]
Heike Becker
opportunity of obtaining training in professions such as nursing which allowed them to develop new perspectives within a changing society (Becker, 1995:105). Altered gendered sexualities played themselves out in different ways in the Owambo communities. The growing attraction to Christianity as a cultural strategy to claim modernity did not necessarily mean that people abandoned older […]
The care of children
The low status of mothers in the labour market has therefore been closely related to the limitations of social provisions such as child care. How has child-care provision changed during the twentieth century? Proponents of the degradation-of-mothering thesis have often argued that improvements that have facilitated child care—from antibiotics to plumbing—have been offset by rising […]
Enforced military prostitution in the Asia-Pacific War
As we have seen, the Japanese army was initially stationed on the Asian mainland in order to protect Japanese trading interests after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 and the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5. Taiwan was annexed in 1895 and Korea in 1910. In the Manchurian Incident of 1931 some Japanese officers set off explosives on […]
A Note on Intimacy in Economic Sociology
Within the social sciences, sociologists and anthropologists have taken the major responsibility for describing and explaining intimate relations. My analyses will frequently refer to anthropological studies, but will draw especially on sociology. This appendix provides a brief overview of relevant discussions in economic sociology for those who have a special interest in the field. Sociologists […]
Treaty ports and prostitution
As the European powers and the United States advanced into East Asia in the nineteenth century, their advance was accompanied by various kinds of relationships with people in colonies, settlements and treaty ports. Colonising men married or entered into informal relations of concubinage with local women, or they frequented brothels staffed by local women. These […]
LOOKING TOWARD AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE
F rancesca Guarino is a married working-class woman, the daughter of immigrants from Italy.1 She lives on Staten Island in New York City wi th h er husband, who is employed as a technician for a telephone company, and her three children. Their two daughters are aged seventeen and fifteen; they also have an eight-year-old […]