When the Personal Meets the Global at Home: Filipina Domestics and their Female Employers in Taiwan
Author(s)
Cheng, Shu-Ju Ada
Abstract
Cheng examines the competing meanings of domesticity, womanhood, and motherhood implicit in the global restructuring of care, focusing on the tension between Taiwanese female employers and Filipina domestics. She argues that meanings of domesticity, womanhood, and motherhood constitute central loci of identity struggles between these two groups of women under the context of globalization. Cheng then juxtaposes their interconnected experiences and contending narratives to demonstrate the relational construction of identities between them.
