The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling by Arlie Russell Hochschild

The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling

Arlie Russell Hochschild

327 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction feminism psychology sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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In private life, we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or emotion work, just as we manage our outer expressions of feeling through surface acting. In trying to bridge a gap between what we feel and what we ought to...

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