Intimate Economies

1. Introduction: Global Intimate Economies: Discontents and Debates
Susanne Hofmann, Adi Moreno

Part I. Commodifying Affects, Emotions and Selves

2. The “Authentic Cybertariat”? Commodifying Feeling, Accents, and Cultural Identities in the Global South
Sweta Rajan-Rankin

3. Regulating Sexy Subjects: The Case of Brazilian Fashion Retail and Its Affective Workforce
Nicolas Wasser

4. Emotional Labor and Ethical Practice: Professionalism Among Sex Workers in Tijuana
Susanne Hofmann

Part II. Sexualized Bodies on the Market

5. A Feast of Men: Sexuality, Kinship and Predation in the Practices of Female Prostitution in Downtown Porto Alegre
José Miguel Nieto Olivar

6. Neoliberalism, Oil Wealth and Migrant Sex Work in the Chadian City of N’Djamena
Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta, Tabi Chama James Tabenyang

7. The Use of “Life-enabling” Practices Among Waria: Vulnerability, Subsistence, and Identity in Contemporary Yogyakarta
Néstor Nuño Martínez

Part III. Global Reproductive Commerce

8. Gestational Labors: Care Politics and Surrogates’ Struggle
Sophie Lewis

9. Surrogate Mothers and Gay Fathers: Navigating the Commercial Surrogacy Arrangement in India
Anindita Majumdar

10. Families on the Market Front
Adi Moreno

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Sociology of the Body, Emotion