1st Edition
Labour of Love Beyond the Self-Evidence of Everyday Life
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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Amazed at the stubborn nature of the sexual division of labour in modern society, five Norwegian researchers set out to explore the sources of this pervasive resistance to change. Moving from the neutral concepts of work and money, the lofty notions of love and family and the triviality of domestic organization, social science is made to yield some surprising insights into hidden, secret and... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The semantics of love; Shelter from the storm; Money, gifts and gender; Family theory reconsidered; The fearful empty space.
Biography
Øystein Gulvåg Holter, Tordis Borchgrevink
’...this volume represents a fascinating series of insights and provocative reflections on social institutions and issues that might have seemed familiar and well-explored. In this, the authors succeed admirably in one of the central aims of a social science imagination: that of reminding the reader of the strangeness and complexity of much of our most intimate everyday life.’ David H.J. Morgan, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester, UK
