{"product_id":"the-purchase-of-intimacy-9780691130637","title":"The Purchase of Intimacy","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn their personal lives, people consider it essential to separate economics and intimacy. We have, for example, a long-standing taboo against workplace romance, while we see marital love as different from prostitution because it is not a fundamentally financial exchange. In \u003ci\u003eThe Purchase of Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e, Viviana Zelizer mounts a provocative challenge to this view. Getting to the heart of one of life's greatest taboos, she shows how we all use economic activity to create, maintain, and renegotiate important ties--especially intimate ties--to other people. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In everyday life, we invest intense effort and worry to strike the right balance. For example, when a wife's income equals or surpasses her husband's, how much more time should the man devote to household chores or child care? Sometimes legal disputes arise. Should the surviving partner in a same-sex relationship have received compensation for a partner's death as a result of 9\/11? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through a host of compelling examples, Zelizer shows us why price is central to three key areas of intimacy: sexually tinged relations; health care by family members, friends, and professionals; and household economics. She draws both on research and materials ranging from reports on compensation to survivors of 9\/11 victims to financial management Web sites and advice books for same-sex couples. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the bedroom to the courtroom, \u003ci\u003eThe Purchase of Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e opens a fascinating new window on the inner workings of the economic processes that pervade our private lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eViviana A. Zelizer\u003c\/b\u003e is Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. Her previous books include \u003ci\u003eThe Social Meaning of Money\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePricing the Priceless Child\u003c\/i\u003e (both Princeton) and \u003ci\u003eMorals and Markets\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50327157604626,"sku":"9780691130637","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_86283a16-3cf8-4756-b435-ae2e37a3b417.jpg?v=1727710681","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-purchase-of-intimacy-9780691130637","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}