Freeman Entrepreneurial Selves

Neoliberal Respectability and the Making of a Caribbean Middle Class
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7600-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

Steeped in more than a decade of ethnography on the emergent middle class of Barbados, this remarkable book turns a spotlight on the entrepreneur, a figure saluted across the globe as the very embodiment of neoliberalism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Freeman, Carla

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Entrepreneurial Selves: An Introduction 1

1. Barbadian Neoliberalism and the Rise of a New Middle-Class Entrepreneurialism 17

2. Entrepreneurial Affects: "Partnership" Marriage and the New Intimacy 57

3. The Upward Mobility of Matrifocality 97

4. Neoliberal Work and Life 131

5. The Therapeutic Ethic and the Spirit of Neoliberalism 169

Conclusion 207

Notes 217

References 235

Index 251

Über Autor(innen)

Carla Freeman is Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and associated faculty in Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, at Emory University. She is the author of High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink Collar Identities in the Caribbean, also published by Duke University Press, and a coeditor of Global Middle Classes: Ethnographic Particularities, Theoretical Convergences.