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xvii, 242 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"Mothercoin is a nonfiction, story-driven consideration of immigrant nannies and contemporary motherhood in the US"--
Cummins Muñoz tells the stories of a group of Central American and Mexican women who have spent years caring and cleaning in the private homes of Houston, Texas. She traces their journeys from childhood to a working world marked by care devoted to other women's children in order to provide for their own. The experiences of these...
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x, 336 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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When Megan Stack was living in Beijing, she left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have her first child and work from home writing a book. She quickly realized that caring for a baby and keeping up with the housework while her husband went to the office each day was consuming the time she needed to write. This dilemma was resolved in the manner of many upper-class families and large corporations: she availed herself of cheap Chinese...
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