The outsourced self
Subtitle: intimate life in market times
By: Arlie Russell Hochschild
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780805088892
Subjects: Interpersonal relations and culture; Families; History
Description: Drawing on hundreds of interviews and original research, Hochschild follows the incursions of the market into every stage of intimate life and reveals a world in which the most intuitive and emotional of human acts have become work for hire.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: You have three seconds; title: The legend of the lemon tree; title: For as long as we both shall live; title: Our baby, her womb; title: My womb, their baby; title: It takes a service mall; title: Making six-year-olds laugh is harder than you think; title: A high score in family memory creation; title: Importing family values; title: I was invisible to myself; title: Nolan enjoys my father for me; title: With a person you pay you can be needy; title: I would have done it if she'd been my mother; title: Endings.