Table of Contents
Introduction. Emotions in Social Life: Mapping the Sociological Terrain Simon Williams and Gillian Bendelow Section 1: Critical Perspectives on Emotions 1. The Sociology of Emotion as a Way of Seeing Arlie Russell Hochschild 2. Emotion and Communicative Action: Habermas, Linguistic Philosophy and Existentialism Nick Crossley 3. The Limitations of Cultural Constructionism in the Study of Emotion Margot Lyon 4. The Sociogenesis of Emotion: an Historical Sociology? Tim Newton Section 2: The Mediation of Emotional Experience 5. Bored and Blase: Television, the Emotions and Georg Simmel Keith Tester 6. In Search of the Inner Child: Co-Dependence and Gender in a Cyberspace Community Norman Denzin 7. Emotions, Cyberspace and the 'Virtual' Body: a Critical Appraisal Simon J Williams Section 3: Emotions and the Body through the Life Course 8. Children, Emotion and Daily Life through the Life Course Berry Mayall 9.'Shorties, Low-Lifers, Hardnuts and Kings':Boys and the transformation of emotions in school Shirley Prendergast and Simon Forrest 10. Ageing and Emotion, Mike Hepworth Section 4: Sexuality, Intimacy and Personal Relationships 11. Masculinity and Emotional Life Rejection, Fear and Intimacy Victor J. Seidler 12.'Stepford Wives' and 'Hollow Men': doing emotion work, doing gender and 'authenticity' in Intimate Heterosexual Relationships Jean Duncombe and Dennis Marsden 13. Changes in the 'Lustbalance' of Sex and Love since the Sexual Revolution: the Example of the Netherlands Cas Wouters Section 5: Emotions and Health 14. Pain, Emotions and Gender Gillian Bendelow and Simon J. Williams 15. Social Performances and their Discontents: the Biopsychosocial Aspects of Dramaturgical Stress Peter E.S.Freund 16.'Getting the Job Done': Emotion Management and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Nursing Liz Meerabeau and Susie Page 17. Emotions in Rationalizing Organizations: Conceptual Notes from Professional Nursing in the US Virginia Oleson and Debra Davies
