JS-30
Intimate Labor in Asia

Tuesday, July 15, 2014: 5:30 PM-7:20 PM
Room: 501
RC44 Labor Movements (host committee)
RC32 Women in Society

Language: English

Session Organizers:
Hae Yeon CHOO, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada and Pei-chia LAN, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Chair:
Ruri ITO, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
JS-30.1
Negotiating Risk in Intimate Labor: Domestic Workers and Night Nurses in Urban India (Oral Presentation)
Raka RAY, University of California, Berkeley, USA

JS-30.2
Deferential Surrogates and Professional Others: Recruitment and Training Of Migrant Care Workers In Taiwan and Japan (Oral Presentation)
Pei-chia LAN, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

JS-30.3
Markets in Life Itself: Transnational Surrogacy in India As Intimate Labor (Oral Presentation)
Sharmila RUDRAPPA, University of Texas at Austin, USA

JS-30.4
Intimate Economies of Rehabilitative Work: Policing Sexuality through Wage Labor and Re-Education through Labor in China (Oral Presentation)
Elena SHIH, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

JS-30.5
Body, Work and (gay) Desire: Unpacking Taiwanese Male Gay Masseurs' Labor Practices in Intimate and Sexualized High-Touch Services (Oral Presentation)
Bowei CHEN, Nanhua University, Taiwan

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