This week, we're diving into a few ethnographic texts tracing the contours of how capitalism reworks our understandings of our emotional private lives. What better way to do it than through the lens of a few Bay Area pieces!
Ordinary Affects by Kathleen Stewart (our lone ethnographer with no ties to the Bay Area)- 4-10
The Managed Heart by Arlie Russell Hoschild (Professor at Cal), Ch. 1
Sex Work for the Middle Class by Elizabeth Bernstein- entire article (fieldwork in SF!)
Temporarily Yours by Elizabeth Bernstein: Peruse the tables on these pages: 170, 173
Optional readings if you want to dive deeper:
The Managed Heart, last chapter on authenticity
Temporarily yours: 4 or 5 (for more ethnography), Ch7 (builds the argument Bernstein makes in "Sex work for the Middle class" article.
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Links:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-I.pdf
https://caringlabor.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/the-managed-heart-arlie-russell-hochschild.pdf
http://traffickingroundtable.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Sex-Work-for-the-Middle-Classes.pdf