Sexuality and Discipline among Filipina Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2467641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N Constable (0000-0001-5664-6220, University of Pittsburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 539-558 |
| Publication date | 1997-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ae.1997.24.3.539 |
| OpenAlex | W2101698166 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 59 |
| References cited | 33 |
Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong are viewed as sexually threatening and thus in need of strict discipline. In this article I present and analyze the discourse on the sexuality of Filipina domestic workers, arguing that their reputation is linked primarily to their ambiguous social and class identities, and to broad changes in the familial and economic landscape of Hong Kong. Clothing serves as one forum in which sexuality is expressed, discipline is enacted and resisted, and various forms of power are exercised, [sexuality, Filipina domestic workers, discipline, resistance, clothing, Hong Kong
Clothing · Human sexuality · Political science · Power (physics · Reputation · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Sex work and related issues
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Feminizing the City
Unruly Subjects
Illegal Migration and Gender in a Global and Historical Perspective
Sex Work, Immigration and Social Difference
(Im)mobile Homes
Negotiating Social Boundaries and Private Zones
And all your problems are gone
Acute Psychiatric Disorders in Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
The sexual politics of border control
Migrant Women’s Bodies as Boundary Markers
Sexuality at Imagined Home
Migrating intimacies
Family matters
The Giving Up of Weekly Rest-Days by Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore
Les employées de maison indonésiennes et philippines à Hong Kong en quête de visibilité
Hope it’s not just the honeymoon phase”
Scripting pragmatic intimacies in sex work, migration and intimate-material exchanges
New Global Politics of Reproductive Labor
Gossiping Endurance
Beyond the reach of ethics and equity? Depersonalisation and dehumanisation in foreign domestic helper narratives
The queer promise of pageantry
Invisible labor, invisible bodies
Articulating the Third World in/and cultural studies
We want productive workers, not fertile women
Dans l’ombre des rapports sociaux, les pourvoyeuses du care protestent
Foreign Bodies
From Cross to Crescent
Gender, school management and educational reforms
How to Get Punched by the ‘Weak’
Population geography
Between Danger and Pleasure
Agency in philippine women's labour migration and provisional diaspora
Neither “saints” nor “prostitutes”
Military Bases, "Royalty Trips," and Imperial Modernities
Hot Pants at the Border
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Exploring mediated representations of migrant domestic workers in the Chinese-language media in Hong Kong
Multinational Maids
(Re)mediating ‘blackness’ in Hong Kong Chinese medium newspapers
Jealousy, Chastity, and Abuse
Care extraction migration
Queer Intersections
Diasporic subjects and identity negotiations
The Migration-Development Nexus
Les concours de beauté, enjeux de l'israélianité
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Finding a Home Away from Home
The discourse of powerlessness and repression
Managing 'Vulnerabilities' and 'Empowering' Migrant Filipina Workers
The Familial Dyad between Aged Patients and Filipina Caregivers in Israel
At Home but Not at Home
Artificially Restricted Labor Markets and Worker Dignity in Professional Football
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Supermaids
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A 'Minority' on the Move
Diasporic Encounters, Sacred Journeys
Crafting in waiting
Nightwork
Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions
Carved Flesh/Cast Selves
Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists
Maid to Order in Hong Kong
The Inner Quarters
Conceiving Sexuality
Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan
Making Sex
Unequal sisters
Bananas, Beaches, and Bases
Between Women
Nightwork
The Concept of Fate in Chinese Folk Ideology
Jealousy, Chastity, and Abuse
Why Do the Chinese Work So Hard
Distant Companions
Veiled Sentiments
Passion and Power
Working Daughters of Hong Kong
Passion and Power
Beyond the Pale
Making Sex
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Representing Nationality in China
Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science
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Making Empire Respectable
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| Unique citing works | 59 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,97 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2025 (30) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 59 |