Down with Love: Feminist Critique and the New Ideologies of Work
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Down with Love: Feminist Critique and the New Ideologies of Work
When seeking employment, we are often forced into a rat race competition in which we have to either: offer up a palatable version of our genuine passions and desire, morphing them into a grotesquely corporate version of what they were - something pure and born of love and curiosity, or potentially feel that we are embarrassing or even humiliating
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If caring work is familial love, based in the all-sacrificing love of the mother, creative work is romantic love, based in a different kind of self-sacrifice and voluntary commitment that is expected, on some level, to love you back. Yet work never, ever loves you back. The compulsion to be happy at work, in other words, is always a demand for
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