Women are moving around the globe as never before. But for every female executive racking up frequent flier
miles, there are multitudes of women whose journeys go unnoticed. Each year, millions leave third world countries
to work in the homes, nurseries, and brothels of the first world. This broad-scale transfer of labor results in
an odd displacement, in which the female energy that flows to wealthy countries is subtracted from poor ones--easing
a "care deficit" in rich countries, while creating one back home.
Confronting a range of topics from the fate of Vietnamese mail-order brides to the importation of Mexican nannies
in Los Angeles, Global Woman offers an original look at a world increasingly shaped by mass migration and economic
exchange. Collected and with an Introduction by bestselling social critics Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell
Hochschild, this groundbreaking anthology reveals a new era in which the main resource extracted from developing
nations is no longer gold or silver, but love.