Emotionen und Geschlecht im politischen Feld

What is the role of emotions in the field of politics? How important is emotional capital and what does doing emotional work mean? What role do gender and the body play in this respect? How are daily politics affected by the increasing relevance of social media? Does social media lead to new emotional stress? This book focuses on these and many more questions. It offers an insight into a political field from the sociological perspectives of employment and gender. To conduct the study on which this book is based, the author interviewed members of the German Parliament and can thus provide a vivid image of the emotional challenges posed by political work.