Uses a feminist intersectional approach to examine how the Chinese government uses concepts of love to control the population, reinforce inequalities, build a cheap labor market, and consolidate power.
Based on interviews with 61 black and white young women from poor, working-class, and middle-class backgrounds in the United States who intended to pursue jobs in health fields. High school juniors and seniors were interviewed in 2008, and 41 of these women were also interviewed in 2013 and 2014 when they were 21–24 years old.
Focuses on middle-class and lower-middle-class women in their 20s who migrated to southern California during the 1980s primarily because they could not find suitable jobs in Japan.
Based on interviews with 55 pregnant workers in service industries and fieldwork at a New York City public hospital's prenatal clinic that primarily serves African American and Latinx patients.