Comfort and Struggle
Emotion Work in Family Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9764314 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M L Devault (0000-0003-0361-6516, Syracuse University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 561 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 52-63 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716299561001004 |
| OpenAlex | W4254098022 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 86 |
| References cited | 25 |
Though family life is typically associated with emotion rather than work, the concept of emotion work reveals the effort behind family feeling. Existing literature on family emotion work emphasizes caregiving and interpersonal support—activities associated with the housewife ideal of the industrial age. This article examines not only such caregiving and support activities but also several other forms of emotion work that become visible when we consider families whose lives diverge from this privileged ideal
Aesthetics · Art · Emotion work · Epistemology · Family life · Feeling · Housewife · Ideal (ethics · Interpersonal communication · Sociology · Work (physics · Applied Psychology · Emotional Labor in Professions · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges
Global Care Work and Gendered Constraints
Caring Across Generations
Challenging Racial Silences in Studies of Emotion Work
Mothers, emotion work, and feeling rules
Balancing acts
O trabalho culinário doméstico como cuidado
MasterChef
The third shift
Conceptualizing invisible housework in sociological research
Exploring the Relationship Between Types of Family Work and Marital Well-Being
Multidimensionality of stress
Things Will Be Better in the Future! Emotion Work and Heterosexism in Parent–LGB Child Relationships
Intimacy and/or degradation
Between provisioning and consuming
Feeling Labor
Doing Care on the Run
Allocation of household responsibilities influences change in dietary behavior
Has work replaced home as a haven? Re-examining Arlie Hochschild's Time Bind proposition with objective stress data
Silenced Reality
Palliative Emotion Work
Quantity and Quality
Integrative and Masking Emotion Work
Family Theory Versus the Theories Families Live By
"Women's Work"? Women Partners of Transgender Men Doing Housework and Emotion Work
Single Mothers "Do" Family
The Power of Unsilencing
Her Life Rests on Your Shoulders”
The influence of gender, age, education and household size on meal preparation and food shopping responsibilities
Bringing the Social Back in
Corporate Colonization of Couples' Work-Life Negotiations
Understanding educational work
Protecting intimacy
The work of disabled identities in intimate relationships
Expanding the joys of cooking
Client care strategies, stressors, and solutions in frontline anti‐trafficking work
Countervisualities of care
The Costs of Thinking About Work and Family
The emotional terrain of parenting and marriage
The Hidden Work of Challenging Precarity
Work and family conflict in academic science
More than comfort and discomfort
Privileged Emotion Managers
Managing Emotional Manhood
Passion Work
Emotional Expression at Work and at Home
Tending to the Emotions of Children
Development of work-life/family policy and gendered division of childcare responsibility
Minding the (Age) Gap
The Human Face of Workplace Flexibility
Display Work
Equality takes work
I've Got No Choice
Managing Without Moms
Emotion Work and Gender Inequality in Transnational Family Life
Emotion-Work Performance Among Dual-Earner Couples
Being a Good Mom
When My Parents Came to the Gay Ball
It's Like a Family
Couple Identity Work
Mothers' experiences of family life during Covid-19
Behind the scenes
Reflexive convention
The ineffable allure of sugar - Hammer cake, That Sugar Film and contradictory pleasures
The Cognitive Dimension of Household Labor
De-gendered Processes, Gendered Outcomes
Revisiting the Gender Gap in Time-Use Patterns
Mothers' Milk
Administrative burdens as a family affair
The cancer may come back
Words and Hugs
Feeding the family
Between women
The Managed Heart
Streetwise
Symbolic Interactionism
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
The Time Bind
Black Feminist Thought
Mixed Families
Playfulness, “World”-Travelling, and Loving Perception
Talking Back
The Everyday World as Problematic
Our Mothers'grief
Workaholics' and 'Whingeing Women
Reconceptualizing Family Work
The Home as Workshop
Re-Visioning Women and Social Change
Mothers Who Care
The Consequences of Caring
Remarriage as an Incomplete Institution
Who Cares for the Family
| Unique citing works | 70 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,74 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 85 |