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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Two Sides of an Idea
Part One A Culture of Psychic Divestment
1 The Commercial Spirit of Intimate Life and the Abductic
of Feminism: Signs from Women's Advice Books 3
2 The Commodity Frontier 30
3 Gender Codes and the Play of Irony 45
4 Light and Heavy:
American and Japanese Advice Books for Women
with Kazuko Tanaka 58
Part Two A Feelingful Self
5 The Capacity to Feel 75
6 Working on Feeling 87
7 The Economy of Gratitude o04
8 Two Ways to See Love 119
9 Pathways of Feeling 27
Part Three The Referred Pain of a Troubled Society
10 From the Frying Pan into the Fire 41
11 The Colonized Colonizer: Cruelty and
Kindness in Mother-Daughter Bonds 49
12 The Fractured Family 61
13 Children as Eavesdroppers 72
Part Four The Ecology of Care
14 Love and Gold 185
15 Emotional Geography and the Flight Plan of Capitalism 198
16 The Culture of Politics: Traditional, Postmodern, Cold Modem,
and Warm Modern Ideals of Care 213
Part Five Speaking Personally
17 Inside the Clockwork of Male Careers 227
Notes 255
Bibliography 28I
Index 303
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:Interpersonal relations and culture, Emotions Sociological aspects, Social pressure, Man-woman relationships, Self, Family