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This forceful study is as ethnographically gripping as it is theoretically sophisticated. Parrenas's incisive examination leads us to new analytic terrain by dispelling the myths of globalization. -David L. Eng, author of Racial Castration We found this book to be a compelling analysis of the plight of Filipina emigrants. - Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books , Stands by itself as a study of Filipina work-related issues within the Philippines and overseas in the 160 countries in which Filipina domestic workers find themselves. . . . Recommended. - Choice , The Force of Domesticity offers fresh perspectives on the complex linkages of gender and globalization that connect the world today. Through a multi-site analysis of Filipino women, Parrenas shows how domesticity, remittances, and NGO and state-imposed notions of morality conspire to create new structures of inequalities and opportunities for transnational migrant women. -Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of Domestica

This forceful study is as ethnographically gripping as it is theoretically sophisticated. Parrenas's incisive examination leads us to new analytic terrain by dispelling the myths of globalization. <br>-David L. Eng, author of Racial Castration

This forceful study is as ethnographically gripping as it is theoretically sophisticated. Parrenas's incisive examination leads us to new analytic terrain by dispelling the myths of globalization. -David L. Eng, author of Racial Castration The Force of Domesticity offers fresh perspectives on the complex linkages of gender and globalization that connect the world today. Through a multi-site analysis of Filipino women, Parrenas shows how domesticity, remittances, and NGO and state-imposed notions of morality conspire to create new structures of inequalities and opportunities for transnational migrant women. -Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of Domestica We found this book to be a compelling analysis of the plight of Filipina emigrants. - Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books , Stands by itself as a study of Filipina work-related issues within the Philippines and overseas in the 160 countries in which Filipina domestic workers find themselves. . . . Recommended. - Choice ,

The Force of Domesticity offers fresh perspectives on the complex linkages of gender and globalization that connect the world today. Through a multi-site analysis of Filipino women, Parrenas shows how domesticity, remittances, and NGO and state-imposed notions of morality conspire to create new structures of inequalities and opportunities for transnational migrant women. -Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of Domestica We found this book to be a compelling analysis of the plight of Filipina emigrants. - Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books , Stands by itself as a study of Filipina work-related issues within the Philippines and overseas in the 160 countries in which Filipina domestic workers find themselves. . . . Recommended. - Choice , This forceful study is as ethnographically gripping as it is theoretically sophisticated. Parrenas's incisive examination leads us to new analytic terrain by dispelling the myths of globalization. -David L. Eng, author of Racial Castration

""Stands by itself as a study of Filipina work-related issues within the Philippines and overseas in the 160 countries in which Filipina domestic workers find themselves. . . . Recommended."" -""Choice"", ""The Force of Domesticity offers fresh perspectives on the complex linkages of gender and globalization that connect the world today. Through a multi-site analysis of Filipino women, Parrenas shows how domesticity, remittances, and NGO and state-imposed notions of morality conspire to create new structures of inequalities and opportunities for transnational migrant women."" -Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of ""Domestica"" ""We found this book to be a compelling analysis of the plight of Filipina emigrants."" -""Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books"", ""This forceful study is as ethnographically gripping as it is theoretically sophisticated. Parrenas's incisive examination leads us to new analytic terrain by dispelling the myths of globalization."" -David L. Eng, author of ""Racial Castration""

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Andy Merrifield teaches in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University in Worcester, Massachussets. He is co-editor of The Urbanization of Injustice (NYU Press, 1997). His writings have appeared in The Nation, Monthly Review, Rethinking Marxism and New Left Review. He recently moved from London to New York City.

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