Challenging racial silences in studies of emotion work: contributions from anti-racist feminist theory.

From: Organization Studies | Date: June 1, 2003| Author: Mirchandani, Kiran | Copyright information

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Little or no attention has been paid to the racialized dimensions of the emotion work done by individuals as part of their paid jobs. I argue that this exclusion of racial analyses is symptomatic of a static conceptualization of the subject underlying many studies of emotion work. While theorists illuminate the different forms of emotion work required by women and men, and by individuals in various professions, there is little understanding of the relationship b...

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