Citation

Shuler S. Wom. Stud. Comm. 2007; 30(3): 255-283.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Organization for Research on Women and Communication)

DOI

10.1080/07491409.2007.10162515

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In this paper, I planned to describe emotional labor at domestic violence shelter, and to examine how it both hurts and enhances employees. But then I ran into a crisis of representation. How can I tell their stories when I haven't formulated my own? This autoethnography attempts to enact a “loving epistemology” (Laible, 2000) to explore the paradoxes of being a feminist teacher and a scholar and constructing a life, and examines the emotional labor involved in studying emotional labor.