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The Emotional Labor of Mothers
Episode 2312
Published 1 month, 1 week ago
Description
Author Alva Gotby's book "They Call it Love: The Politics of Emotional Life" (Verso Books, 2023), coined the term emotional reproduction to describe the unseen and unappreciated labor involved in maintaining relationships that tends to fall on women in heterosexual pairings. For this Mother's Day, listeners call in to share how this concept appears in their lives and appreciate the emotional reproduction of the mothers in their lives.
Photo: A woman gives a child a hug. (Credit: Myles Grant/Wikimedia Commons BY CC 2.0)