The commercialization of intimate life : notes from home and work

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The commercialization of intimate life : notes from home and work

Arlie Russell Hochschild

University of California Press, c2003

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  • : hard

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Bibliography: p. 281-302

Includes index

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Volume

: hard ISBN 9780520214873

Description

Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of three "New York Times" Notable Books, has been one of the freshest and most popular voices in feminist sociology over the last decades. Her influential, unusually perceptive work has opened up new ways of seeing family life, love, gender, the workplace, market transactions - indeed, American life itself. This book gathers some of Hochschild's most important and most widely read articles in one place, includes new work, and brings several essays to American audiences for the first time. Each chapter reflects on the complex negotiations we make day to day to juggle the conflicting demands of love and work. Taken together, they are a compelling, often startling, look at how our everyday lives are shaped by modern capitalism. These essays, rich with the details of everyday life, explore larger social issues by looking at a series of intimate moments in people's lives. Among them, "Love and Gold" investigates the globalization of love by focusing on care workers who leave their own children and elderly to care for children and the elderly in wealthy countries. In "The Commodity Frontier," Hochschild considers an Internet ad for a 'beautiful, smart, hostess, good masseuse - $400/week', and explores our responses to personal services for hire. In "From the Frying Pan into the Fire" she asks if capitalism is a religion. In addition to these recent essays, several of Hochschild's important early essays, such as 'Inside the Clockwork of Male Careers', have been revised and updated for this collection.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780520214880

Description

Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of three "New York Times" Notable Books, has been one of the freshest and most popular voices in feminist sociology over the last decades. Her influential, unusually perceptive work has opened up new ways of seeing family life, love, gender, the workplace, market transactions - indeed, American life itself. This book gathers some of Hochschild's most important and most widely read articles in one place, includes new work, and brings several essays to American audiences for the first time. Each chapter reflects on the complex negotiations we make day to day to juggle the conflicting demands of love and work. Taken together, they are a compelling, often startling, look at how our everyday lives are shaped by modern capitalism. These essays, rich with the details of everyday life, explore larger social issues by looking at a series of intimate moments in people's lives. Among them, "Love and Gold" investigates the globalization of love by focusing on care workers who leave their own children and elderly to care for children and the elderly in wealthy countries. In "The Commodity Frontier," Hochschild considers an Internet ad for a 'beautiful, smart, hostess, good masseuse - $400/week', and explores our responses to personal services for hire. In "From the Frying Pan into the Fire" she asks if capitalism is a religion. In addition to these recent essays, several of Hochschild's important early essays, such as 'Inside the Clockwork of Male Careers', have been revised and updated for this collection.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Two Sides of an Idea Part One A Culture of Psychic Divestment 1 The Commercial Spirit of Intimate Life and the Abduction of Feminism: Signs from Women's Advice Books 2 The Commodity Frontier 3 Gender Codes and the Play of Irony 4 Light and Heavy: American and Japanese Advice Books for Women with Kazuko Tanaka Part Two A Feelingful Self 5 The Capacity to Feel 6 Working on Feeling 7 The Economy of Gratitude 8 Two Ways to See Love 9 Pathways of Feeling Part Three The Referred Pain of a Troubled Society 10 From the Frying Pan into the Fire 11 The Colonized Colonizer: Cruelty and Kindness in Mother-Daughter Bonds 12 The Fractured Family 13 Children as Eavesdroppers Part Four The Ecology of Care 14 Love and Gold Part Five 15 Emotional Geography and the Flight Plan of Capitalism 16 The Culture of Politics: Traditional, Postmodern, Cold Modern, and Warm Modern Ideals of Care Speaking Personally 11 Inside the Clockwork of Male Careers Notes Bibliography Index

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