-independence in Jamaica, we find that nationhood and respectability work in tandem to define notions of gender

service providers in the US Midwest who work with vulnerable, exploited, or trafficked persons to

recipes is a form of gendered care work that requires additional exploration. This dissertation combines

loss, and summer camp. A feminist, reflexive lens guided the work, culminating in the formulation of a

and her caring labor with young women in Tokyo to argue that her work ought to be considered a form of

interest in foreign missionary work, even a cursory reading of both Fundamentalist and Southern Baptist

increasingly shape women's career trajectories. Using the retrospective work-history data from Chinese General

not have the required work skills. About four hundred Myanmar single males, for instance, work for the

creative work, Muslim youth acquire a sense of their agency and ability to intercede in political spaces

through the work of authors that are the subject of this dissertation.

, individuals' motivation at work diminished and people adjusted their behavior to find equality. Since gender

of intra-Catholic boundary work, where people judge, produce, and enact what I term Catholic