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At the Limits of Care challenges dominant narratives around women and care through a blend of feminist sociological analyses and memoir.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Part 1: Care Junkie Diaries: The Memoir
1. Starting at the Limits
2. Ship of Fools?
3. Care Junkie Diaries
4. Turned In
5. Daddy Loves You
6. Escape Velocity
7. The Flinch Factor
Part 2: Towards a Counter Politics of Care
8. Focusing Questions
9. Advancing a Counter Politics of Care through Feminist Research
10. Outline of the Book
Part 3: What Stories Do We Tell about Care, and How Can We Tell New Ones?
11. Women Talking
12. Situating Stories of Women and Care
13. Care Conditions in Ontario
Part 4: Reaching the Limits: Inequitable Care Conditions and the Moral, Feminine Impossible
14. Narrative Silences: Did It Rattle You as Well or Do You Remember-?
15. Moralizing Tropes: Reaching One’s Limits as an Embodied Breaking Point and Moral, Feminine Achievement
16. The Body Says "No"
17. People that Care the Most
18. Guilt on Top of That
19. Rethinking Moral Captivity, Even If That’s Just How the Story Gets Told
20. Final Thoughts
Part 5: Loosening the Grip: Reimagined "Care Ethics" and the Politics of Responsibility
21. "Heartbreakers Leave" and Other Tropes
22. Women Leave: Finding Flow or Wading through Swamps
23. The Strategies Women Use to "Get Out" Tell Us What They Are Up Against
24. Negotiating One’s Own and Others’ Care Needs
25. Rethinking and Challenging Moral, Gendered Imperatives to Care
26. Imagining Alternatives for One’s Life and Work
27. Rethinking Care as a Domain of Struggle
28. Final Thoughts
29. Interlude: A Different Kind of #MeToo?
Part 6: Thinking "Differently and More Deeply about Care Stories": Women "Set Up" and Summoned across the Life Course
30. "Some People Like a Big Frenzy" and Other Tropes
31. "Set Up" and Summoned across the Life Course: Shifting Gender Relations and What "Care" Evokes
32. "What’s not to love?": Finding Meaning in the Care One Is Coerced to Provide
33. "Good Girls" and "Rebels": Recasting the Caring Role
34. The "Only One," the "Only Thing," or "Part of the Team": Intimate and Institutional Relations
35. Rethinking Individualizing Tropes, Imagining Conditions to Pull Things Off
36. Final Thoughts
Conclusion: A Counter Politics Playbook?
37. What the Research Reveals
38. The Power of the Process: A Counter Politics Playbook?
Appendix 1: Care Junkie Recovery Group
Appendix 2: Overview of Participants and Interview Process
References
Index
About the Author
About the author
By Janna Klostermann
Summary
At the Limits of Care challenges dominant narratives around women and care through a blend of feminist sociological analyses and memoir.
