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In search of the ideal worker -- Embodied inequality -- Interlude : getting to work : domestic workers' commutes -- Informed but insecure / written in collaboration with Leila Rodriguez -- Pathways through poverty -- Like any other job?

Playing by the rules: dress codes in corporate workplaces -- Trading places -- Just like Dad? Family relations and class origins in dressing for white-collar work -- Watches and shoes -- Putting on the uniform: choice, obligation, and collective identity -- Tailor tales -- The metrosexual is dead, long live the metrosexual! -- Zuck's hoodie -- What about women? Gender and dress at work and home -- A man should never wear -- The F word: men's engagement with fashion -- Comfort -- Being/becoming the boss: office hierarchies and dress

Research on bodies and work relies on theoretical perspectives that see the working body as a resource and/or symbol. This study bridges these complementary theories, incorporating two concepts (occupational habitus and body work) that extend and synthesize them into a more holistic model of embodied inequality. Drawing primarily on the accounts of women domestic workers in Ecuador's largest city, I explore the embodied dimensions of domestic work and show how unequal relations between workers and employers manifest in and on bodies, specifically through interactions around health, food, and appearance/clothing. I argue that paid domestic workers' bodies are simultaneously resources that can be used (up) for work, and symbols interpreted according to local hierarchies of gender and class.

What do the words global, transnational, national, and local mean when talking about beauty, which is simultaneously abstract and ephemeral, embodied and concrete? How do ideas and images of beauty circulate in a globalizing world, and how do people's bodily practices respond to them? Rather than simply examining how beauty is thought about and aspired to in international settings, this collection of original scholarly work and first-person accounts takes globalization processes and the transnational links these processes create as the jumping-off point for an examination of what it means to be, have, or aspire to a beautiful body.

Cosmetic surgery tourism (CST) is part of the growing trend known as medical tourism. As people in the global North travel to less affluent countries to modify their bodies through cosmetic surgery, their transnational body projects are influenced by both economic "materialities" and traveling cultural "imaginaries." This article presents a content analysis of media representations of cosmetic surgery tourism in a major country sending patient-tourists (the United States) and a popular receiving country (Argentina). The power relations of globalization appear to be played out in the media. U.S. sources assert U.S. hegemony through a discourse emphasizing the risks of CST in the global South, in contrast with medical excellence in the U.S. Argentine sources portray Argentina as a country struggling to gain a foothold in the global economy, but staking a claim on modernity through cultural and professional resources. The analyzed articles also offer a glimpse of how patient-tourists fuel sectors of the global economy by placing their bodies at the forefront, seeking to merge medical procedures and touristic pleasures. There is a gender dimension to these portrayals, as women are especially likely to engage in CST. Their transnational body projects are tainted by negative media portrayals, which represent them as ignorant, uninformed, and driven mainly by the low price of surgery overseas. Our comparative approach sheds light on converging and diverging perspectives on both ends of the cosmetic surgery tourism chain, showing that patterns in CST portrayals differ according to the position of a country in the world-system.

Este dossiê tem como objetivo discutir as dimensões importantes da politização da vida íntima. Os textos apresentados discutem e estabelecem relações com os conceitos de trabalho doméstico, care work e trabalho emocional. Para destacar esta temática fundamental, nesse início de milênio, a Revista Século XXI reúne nesta edição artigos que revisitam as definições temáticas dos conceitos de care work, trabalho doméstico e trabalho reprodutivo. As contribuições advindas da Sociologia, Ciência Política, Antropologia, Enfermagem e Educação colocam estes debates em cenários de pesquisas empíricas, o que traz maior proximidade às suas múltiplas realidades. Os artigos indicam a importância global destes estudos e revelam realidades de vários estados do Brasil, além de inserir escritos sobre Uruguai e Portugal.