This book advances debates over the relationship between care and economy through the concept of intimate labor--care, domestic, and sex work--and thus charts relations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship in the context of global economic transformations.

Eileen Boris is Hull Professor and Chair of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she directs the Center for Research on Women and Social Justice. Rhacel Salazar Parreñas is Professor of American Civilization and Sociology at Brown University.