The Au Pair Body

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Cox, Rosie

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Abstract	The employment of au pairs to provide childcare, cleaning and other domestic services has been steadily increasing in the UK. This article provides an analysis of representations of au pairs in the British press and on the websites of agencies placing au pairs. This analysis seeks to understand how such imaginings of au pairs affect their life in Britain and how au pairs themselves respond to such imaginings. It argues that the competing portrayals of au pairs as both sexual sirens and committed carers works with other ambivalences in the scheme to facilitate the growth of au pair employment in Britain while simultaneously denying their place as an important source of domestic labour for British families.
Thesaurusschlagwörter	migration
Freie Schlagwörter	au pairs; bodies; employment agencies; representation;
Sprache Dokument	Englisch
Publikationsjahr	2007
Seitenangabe	S. 281-296
Zeitschriftentitel	European Journal of Women's Studies, 14 (2007) 3
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350506807079015
Status	Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz	PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)