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Gathers some of the author's widely read articles. This book reflects on the complex negotiations we make day to day to juggle the conflicting demands of love and work.

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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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 24/04/2003
      ISBN13: 9780520214880, 978-0520214880
      ISBN10: 0520214889
      Also in:
      Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Gathers some of the author's widely read articles. This book reflects on the complex negotiations we make day to day to juggle the conflicting demands of love and work.

      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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