So how's the family? : and other essays / Arlie Russell Hochschild.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hochschild, Arlie Russell, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--United States.

Families.

United States.

Women--Social conditions.

Women.

United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

x, 251 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]

Summary:

In this new collection of thirteen essays, Arlie Russell Hochschild-author of the groundbreaking explorations of emotional labor The Managed Heart and The Outsourced Self-focuses on the impact of social forces on the emotional side of intimate life. From the "work" it takes to keep personal life personal, put feeling into work, and empathize with others to the cultural blur between market and home, the effect of a social class gap on family wellbeing, and the movement of care workers around the globe, Hochschild raises deep questions about the modern age. In an eponymous essay, she points toward a possible future in which a person asking, "How's the family?" hears the proud answer, "Couldn't be better." Book jacket.

Contents:

The Feel of Things

1 Going on Attachment Alert 13

2 Can Emotional Labor Be Fun? 24

3 Empathy Maps 32

Families, Class Gaps, and Time

4 So How's the Family? 47

5 Time Strategies 64

6 The Diplomat's Wife 75

Boundaries and Blurs, Market and Home

7 The Personalized Market and the Marketized Self (with Sarah Garrett) 93

8 At Home in the Office (with Barrie Thorne) 111

9 Rent-a-Mom 117

Women on the Global Backstage

10 Two-Way Global Traffic in Care 135

11 Children Left Behind (with S. Uma Devi and Lise Isaksen) 147

12 The Surrogate's Womb 165.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520272279

0520272277

9780520272286

0520272285

OCLC:

827528832