SOC 101 Chapter Gender Inequality: Gender Inequality Reading Notes
8 Mar 2017
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The manged hand: the commercialization of bodies and emotions in korea immigrant- The provision of body related services and the management of feelings the accompanies it. An embodied perspective on gendered work highlights the feminization of the body related services sector and the proliferation of intricate practices of enhancing the appearance of the female body. The concept of body labor makes two important contributions to the study of emotional la(cid:271)o(cid:396) : it implores the embodied dimensions of emotional labor, it investigates the intersections of race, gender, and class in shaping its performance. Native born white women: paralegals, nannies, au pairs, fast food, insurance sales workers, police officers. Performed by mostly white, middle-class women largely for the benefit of white, middle and upper-class men. In korean owned salons; emotional labor involves women serving women. Not necessarily governed by social feeling rules of white, middle-class americans.
