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A review by sadietay
Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power by Rose Hackman
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4.5
This book was incredibly well-done and important!! It told a well-rounded, well-backed, intersectional stance for the inequality AND importance of emotional (aka empathetically-centered) labor in our society.
Some chapters felt too much like a Ted Talk, which is why I didn’t give it the full 5 stars.
My 2 favorite experts:
1) “Tim, a [feminist-identifying] scientist, would never have dared say to me that women are better cooks or women are better cleaners; and yet Tim did seem to say (unapologetically) that women are just naturally more gifted with emotions…”
2) "The point with emotional labor is not that it inherently points to an injustice. When seen, when valued or appreciated, or when part of an exchange, a mutuality, an ecosystem where love is power - then it needn't be exploitative. Quite the contrary: doing emotional labor for people who are doing it for you is the goal, not the problem."
This book was incredibly well-done and important!! It told a well-rounded, well-backed, intersectional stance for the inequality AND importance of emotional (aka empathetically-centered) labor in our society.
Some chapters felt too much like a Ted Talk, which is why I didn’t give it the full 5 stars.
My 2 favorite experts:
1) “Tim, a [feminist-identifying] scientist, would never have dared say to me that women are better cooks or women are better cleaners; and yet Tim did seem to say (unapologetically) that women are just naturally more gifted with emotions…”
2) "The point with emotional labor is not that it inherently points to an injustice. When seen, when valued or appreciated, or when part of an exchange, a mutuality, an ecosystem where love is power - then it needn't be exploitative. Quite the contrary: doing emotional labor for people who are doing it for you is the goal, not the problem."