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Embodying Modern Times
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Abstract We argue that the way time is organized affects bodily habits and emotions. Drawing on a variety of qualitative and quantitative studies from my large-scale research project with Ulla-Britt Lilleaas, ‘The Sociality of Tiredness: The Handling of Tiredness ... view more
We argue that the way time is organized affects bodily habits and emotions. Drawing on a variety of qualitative and quantitative studies from my large-scale research project with Ulla-Britt Lilleaas, ‘The Sociality of Tiredness: The Handling of Tiredness in a Gender, Generation and Class Perspective’ (presented in Lilleaas and Widerberg, 2001), we focus on class and gender aspects of bodily habits and customs generated in work life and family life (and in the combination of the two). In this article, I illustrate variations in the type of time and body habits that different work organizations and professions generate. I also stress similarities in the use of time and body across professions and gender to illuminate the driving forces of modernity. It is argued that a ‘sped-up life’ and a ‘life of doing’ at work and at home generate a restless body, and irritation (the emotion of late modernity?) as its emotional expression. Finally, the question is raised whether this development is not only a threat to the body, but also to the very heart of democracy.... view less
Keywords
gender
Free Keywords
class; embodied time; modernity; work;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2006
Page/Pages
p. 105-120
Journal
Time & Society, 15 (2006) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X06061348
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)