They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life

Alva Gotby

ISBN 10: 1839767030 / ISBN 13: 9781839767036

Edité par Verso January 2023, 2023

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used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life
• Éditeur: Verso January 2023
• Date de parution: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1839767030
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781839767036
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: VG
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • women's studies

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Synopsis

Comforting a family member or friend, soothing children, providing company for the elderly, ensuring that people feel well enough to work; this is all essential labour. Without it, capitalism would cease to function. They Call It Love investigates the work that makes a haven in a heartless world, examining who performs this labour, how it is organised, and how it might change. In this groundbreaking book, Alva Gotby calls this work 'emotional reproduction', unveiling its inherently political nature. It not only ensures people's well-being but creates sentimental attachments to social hierarchy and the status quo. Drawing on the thought of the feminist movement Wages for Housework, Gotby demonstrates that emotion is a key element of capitalist reproduction. To improve the way we relate to one another will require a radical restructuring of society.

À propos de l?auteur

Alva Gotby is a writer and organiser living in London. She holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of West London and an MA in Philosophy and Contemporary Critical Theory from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University. She has written on feminist theory, social reproduction, housing, emotions, and family, and is active in struggles to abolish prisons and landlords.