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The Au Pair Body
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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 ... mehr
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.... weniger
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
https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506807079015
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)