Home and Hegemony: Domestic Service and Identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia

by Sara Dickey

In the intimate context of domestic service, power relations take on one of their most personalized forms. Domestic servants and their employers must formulate their political identities in relationship to each other, sometimes reinforcing and sometimes challenging broader social hierarchies such as those based on class, caste or rank, gender, race and ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, and kinship relations.
This pathbreaking collection...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047211106X
• ISBN13: 9780472111060
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.4"