The purchase of intimacy /

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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zelizer, Viviana A. Rotman
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©2005.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7s3t2
Table of Contents:
  • Encounters of intimacy and economy
  • Intimacy in law
  • Coupling
  • Caring relations
  • Household commerce
  • Intimate revelations.