Commercialization of Intimate Life : Notes from Home and Work / Arlie Russell Hochschild; ed. by Arlie Russell Hochschild.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hochschild, Arlie Russell, Author.

Contributor:

Russell Hochschild, Arlie, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interpersonal relations and culture.

Emotions--Social aspects.

Commodification--Social aspects.

Capitalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 pages) : 2 charts

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2003]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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

15 EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHY AND THE FLIGHT PLAN OF CAPITALISM

16 THE CULTURE OF POLITICS Traditional, Postmodern, Cold Modem, and Warm Modern Ideals of Care

Part Five SPEAKING PERSONALLY

17 INSIDE THE CLOCKWORK OF MALE CAREERS

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 09. Dez 2023)

ISBN:

0-520-93516-0