In Service and Servitude: Foreign Female Domestic Workers and the Malaysian Modernity Project.

Abstract

List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Arranging and Rearranging the Interior Frontiers of Society 3. Boys, Amahs, and Girls: Domestic Workers of the Past and Present 4. The Malaysian-Philippine-Indonesian Maid Trade 5. Infrapolitics of Domestic Service: Strategies of, and Resistances to, Control 6. Modernity Via Consumption: Domestic Service and the Making of the Modern Malaysian Middle Classes 7. Conclusion Glossary Notes Bibliography Index