TY  - GEN
T1  - The purchase of intimacy
A1  - Zelizer, Viviana A. Rotman
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2005
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn438735618
AB  - In their personal lives, people consider it essential to separate economics and intimacy. We have, for example, a long-standing taboo against workplace romance, while we see marital love as different from prostitution because it is not a fundamentally financial exchange. In The Purchase of Intimacy, Viviana Zelizer mounts a provocative challenge to this view. Getting to the heart of one of life's greatest taboos, she shows how we all use economic activity to create, maintain, and renegotiate important ties--especially intimate ties--to other people. In everyday life, we invest intense effort a.
OP  - 356
CN  - HG179 .Z45 2005eb
SN  - 9781400826759
SN  - 1400826756
SN  - 0691124086
SN  - 9780691124087
SN  - 0691130639
SN  - 9780691130637
KW  - Couples : Finance, Personal.
KW  - Interpersonal relations : Economic aspects.
KW  - Financial security.
KW  - Couples : Finances personnelles.
KW  - Relations humaines : Aspect économique.
KW  - Sécurité financière.
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Personal Finance : Money Management.
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Personal Finance : Budgeting.
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Economics : General.
KW  - Couples : Finance, Personal
KW  - Financial security
KW  - Partnerrelaties.
KW  - Interpersoonlijke relaties.
KW  - Intimiteit.
KW  - Economische aspecten.
ER  -