women domestics

A collection of essays in which the authors examine the consequences of globalization on the lives of women, focusing on women who leave their homes in the Third World to work as nannies, maids, prostitutes, and in other "care" positions in wealthy countries.

Imagines the young woman in Johannes Vermeer's mysterious painting "The Girl With a Pearl Earring" as a sixteen-year-old Dutch girl named Griet who sparks the interest of the artist when she becomes a maid in his turbulent household.