Tainted Love
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The film Tainted Love (2023) consists of scenes shot in a gold refinery, juxtaposed with clips of a squirming maternal body, overlaid with definitions of love (from Lomas' lexicography - Provisional list; 2021). It offers a meditation on the value of love in a capitalist system obsessed with profit and commodification, calling into question the value assigned to different modes of production. The unquantifiable value of caring for loved ones is juxtaposed with the solidity of gold – a material with a long history of use in jewellery and talismans associated with love, betrothal and devotion. The text will explore links between the invisible labour of familial caring, love, nurturing and the concepts of emotional labour and cognitive labour with reference to Alva Gotby (2023) and the emerging concept of the ‘motherload’.
Source: Studies in the Maternal
DOI: 10.16995/sim.11758
Author: Charlotte Warne Thomas
Institutions: Kingston University London, Kingston University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4402459572