Down with Love: Feminist Critique and the New Ideologies of Work

Kathi Weeks

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Gender and Feminist Studies Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies Feminist Theory and Gender Studies

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This essay draws on 1970s feminist critiques of the ideologies of love and romance to develop a critique of the popular advice literature that directs employees to find love and happiness at work. The author argues that, under heteropatriarchal capitalism, the ideology of romantic love is being harnessed not only to continue to assign domestic work to women, but to recruit all waged workers into a more intimate relationship with work.

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1984The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling 1949The Second Sex 2010The Promise of Happiness 1972The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution 2018The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work 2015The happiness industry: how the government and big business sold us well-being 1982The anti-social family 2003Against Love: A Polemic

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