The Culture of Soft Work: Labor, Gender, and Race in Postmodern American Narrative (American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century)

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Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: “Soft Is Hard”......Page 14
1 “No Good to Anybody”: Player Piano, General Electric, and the Consumption of Work......Page 28
2 Soft Soap, Snow Jobs, and Apartment Keys: Human Relations Management in Mid-Century Literature and Film......Page 58
3 Automating Feminism: Self-Actualization versus the Post-Work Society in Joanna Russ’s The Female Man......Page 102
4 A Cyborg’s Work Is Never Done: Programming Cyborgs, Workaholics, and Feminists in Marge Piercy’s He, She, and It......Page 126
5 “Sleeping Beauty”: Corporate Culture, Race, and Reality in Michael Crichton’s Rising Sun and Tom Clancy’s Debt of Honor......Page 152
6 Hoodoo Economics: On Management Gurus and Magical Black Men in Postmodern American Culture......Page 178
Conclusion......Page 214
Notes......Page 220
Bibliography......Page 254
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