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Commercialization of Intimate Life Notes from Home and Work

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ISBN-10: 0520214889

ISBN-13: 9780520214880

Edition: 2003

Authors: Arlie Russell. Hochschild

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/24/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 322
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.166

Arlie Russell Hochschild, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of two New York Times Notable Books of the Year, THE SECOND SHIFT and THE MANAGED HEART. She has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a research grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. Her articles have appeared in Harper's, Mother Jones, and Psychology Today, among others. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, the writer Adam Hochschild.

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