Domestic Economies

Women, Work, and the American Dream in Los Angeles

Bibliographic Data

ID19946122
AuthorsRosenbaum (0000-0001-8027-2003, corresponding author), Susanna Rosenbaum (corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages248
Publication date2017-11-03
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueDomestic Economies (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/9780822372264
OpenAlexW2792139324
ISBN9780822372264
Open LibraryOL29786243M
Google BooksX1pDDwAAQBAJ
LanguageEN
Citations received9

In Domestic Economies, Susanna Rosenbaum examines how two groups of women—Mexican and Central American domestic workers and the predominantly white, middle-class women who employ them—seek to achieve the "American Dream." By juxtaposing their understandings and experiences, she illustrates how immigrant and native-born women strive to reach that ideal, how each group is indispensable to the other's quest, and what a vital role reproductive labor plays in this pursuit. Through in-depth ethnographic research with these women at work, at home, and in the urban spaces of Los Angeles, Rosenbaum positions domestic service as an intimate relationship that reveals two versions of female personhood. Throughout, Rosenbaum underscores the extent to which the ideology of the American Dream is racialized and gendered, exposing how the struggle for personal worth and social recognition is shaped at the intersection of motherhood and paid employment

Dream · Ethnography · Ideal (ethics) · Ideology · Immigration · Personhood · Political science · Politics · Sociology · White (mutation) · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · American Dream · employment · Employment · Hispanic American women · Los angeles (calif.) · Middle class · Middle class women · Motherhood · Social conditions · united states · Women · Women foreign workers · Women household employees · Working class women

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