The Purchase of Intimacy

by Viviana A. Zelizer

Book Overview

In 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 The Purchase of Intimacy, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691130639
• ISBN13: 9780691130637
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"