A "Publishers Weekly" Best Book of the Year
From the famed author of the bestselling "The Second Shift" and
"The Time Bind," a pathbreaking look at the transformation of
private life in our for-profit world
The family has long been a haven in a heartless world, the one
place immune to market forces and economic calculations, where the
personal, the private, and the emotional hold sway. Yet as Arlie
Russell Hochschild shows in "The Outsourced Self," that is no
longer the case: everything that was once part of private
life--love, friendship, child rearing--is being transformed into
packaged expertise to be sold back to confused, harried
Americans.
Drawing on hundreds of interviews and original research,
Hochschild follows the incursions of the market into every stage of
intimate life. From dating services that train you to be the CEO of
your love life to wedding planners who create a couple's "personal
narrative"; from nameologists (who help you name your child) to
wantologists (who help you name your goals); from commercial
surrogate farms in India to hired mourners who will scatter your
loved one's ashes in the ocean of your choice--Hochschild reveals a
world in which the most intuitive and emotional of human acts have
become work for hire.
Sharp and clear-eyed, Hochschild is full of sympathy for
overstressed, outsourcing Americans, even as she warns of the
market's threat to the personal realm they are striving so hard to
preserve.
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