Words Underway by Carolyn Culbertson

Author:Carolyn Culbertson
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
Published: 2012-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

The Sexual Division of Emotional Labor:

Bartky on Women as Empathetic Listeners

Bartky’s landmark volume, Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression, sheds light on the everyday sources of women’s subordination, that is, on the everyday habits that over time contribute to the disempowerment of women. In one of the book’s essays, “Feeding Egos and Tending Wounds: Deference and Disaffection in Women’s Emotional Labor,” Bartky explores how taking on a heavy burden of what she calls “emotional caretaking” leads women to become alienated from the capacities they have as linguistic beings.

What does it mean to provide emotional labor? Bartky explains:

To give such support, then, is to tend to a person’s state of mind in such a way as to make his sinking less likely; it is to offer him comfort, typically by the bandaging up of his emotional wounds or to offer him sustenance, typically by the feeding of his self-esteem. The aim of this supporting and sustaining is to produce or to maintain in the one supported and sustained a conviction of the value and importance of his own chosen projects, hence of the value and importance of his own person.[36]

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