Emotional work is everything one needs to do to maintain a positive affect because the positive affect is expected from your social role.
For example, you don’t think that the fast-food worker is really that happy to see you?
If one spouse in a relationship is expected to repress emotions in this way, that’s unfair. If society doesn’t give the spouse credit for the circumstance, that’s even worse.
Historically, that spouse was the wife—hence feminism’s concern about emotional work.
For example, you don’t think that the fast-food worker is really that happy to see you?
If one spouse in a relationship is expected to repress emotions in this way, that’s unfair. If society doesn’t give the spouse credit for the circumstance, that’s even worse.
Thanks, that’s a good example. I had encountered an instance of the phenomenon in the context of male demands for women to “just smile,” but had not generalized it.
Emotional work is everything one needs to do to maintain a positive affect because the positive affect is expected from your social role.
For example, you don’t think that the fast-food worker is really that happy to see you?
If one spouse in a relationship is expected to repress emotions in this way, that’s unfair. If society doesn’t give the spouse credit for the circumstance, that’s even worse.
Historically, that spouse was the wife—hence feminism’s concern about emotional work.
Thanks, that’s a good example. I had encountered an instance of the phenomenon in the context of male demands for women to “just smile,” but had not generalized it.