Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward Free Audiobook Download by Gemma Hartley

Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward is a short book (only 156 pages- but don't let that fool you) that gives readers an inside look at the way dehumanization can be found in some of our most intimate relationships. The author's personal experiences show how this kind of abuse doesn't have to happen just in abusive relationships or because we've allowed ourselves to be treated poorly at work. We're all guilty of it, even if we don't realize it and even if we think we are doing it for our own good sometimes.

The author of this book forges ahead in the face of rampant and widespread emotional labor, chronicling her emotional stream from a girl to a woman to her young adult self. She takes readers on a journey of self-knowledge as she shares personal story after personal story of how her decisions and actions were all based on what other people wanted from her, never what she wanted for herself.

Gemma Hartley wrote a haunting and powerful book entitled 'Fed Up,' in which she describes her life as a personal assistant to the CEO of one of America's largest companies. The chapter titled "Emotional Labor" is a brief but profound exploration into how women are expected to continually perform for their employers, such as providing limitless tea, coffee, and food, making sure that the boss is comfortable at all times and so much more. This could easily be taken as an indictment of female work culture in general, but Ms. Hartley offers up a way forward if we want it to happen.

This book is about the need for a shift in the way we view our service-based society and feminist movement. The authors believe that until this shift happens, women are going to be stuck with 'emotional labor,' which is unpaid work. This labor is essential to the production of services, but it's not often seen as important or necessary in the same way as physical labor.

"This book has important things to say about women," says the narrator Therese Plummer, "but it is not a book about feminism." Gemma Hartley's Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward is an audiobook designed for both men and women to listen to as they walk their dogs or commute to work. It critiques the idea that emotional labour should be compensated by money.

Fed Up is a new book by Gemma Hartley about the emotional labor that women find themselves doing for society. This includes everything from maintaining the facial expressions and demeanor to "trying" not to be seen as angry or sad, or bored. The author believes that this emotional labor is not only exhausting, but also stifling and unfair, and she wants to help us get rid of it.