By Professor Julia T. Wood
ISBN-10: 0809318164
ISBN-13: 9780809318162
At a time whilst stories recommend the typical American girl spends seventeen years taking care of young ones and eighteen years taking good care of getting older mom and dad, Julia T. wooden examines how tradition creates and sustains our definitions of worrying, determines who cares alongside gender traces, and assigns the reduced worth that being concerned has in our society.Wood argues that America’s increasing desire for being concerned is presently being met at an unacceptably excessive rate to caregivers. it's time, she believes, to check caregiving roles and the non-public, political, and social matters that encompass the query of who cares. being concerned needs to be well-known and promoted as an job that instructions the dignity and participation of all participants of our society—men and girls alike.Only through imposing adjustments within the uncomplicated cloth of yankee tradition, affecting either the constitution and the rules of our society and govt, will we, wooden concludes, carve out a procedure of worrying that may realize being concerned as everyone’s accountability.
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It is through language that we construct meanings for caring, women, men, and public and private concerns, and it is in and through communication that we sustain or alter the meanings into which we have entered. Thus, to study ourselves and the practices of our culture we must look closely at our language. In this chapter I introduce each of these key terms and begin to trace their interrelationships in order to provide a preview of the book as a whole, which attempts to inquire into the personal, political, and social implications of caring in American culture as revealed in and constructed by discursive practices in our culture.
Is about caring, women, and the discourse that comprises contemporary American culture. These concerns are closely connected, and it is their interrelationship that I seek to explore in this book. Caring, an activity consistently graced with more lip service than actual respect, has become at once a more urgent and more controversial issue in our social contract. It has become more pressing because our needs for caregivers are growing rapidly; it has become more controversial and difficult to address because many who traditionally have engaged in both normal and extraordinary caring for others are beginning to challenge the expectation that they will or should be more responsible for providing care than other members of the culture.
A few years after my father died, my mother's health declined to a level that made living alone impossible for her. She had always said she would not live with any of her children, because she didn't want to impose on their lives. After my father's drawn out dying process, she became even more adamant in declaring she would not disrupt our lives for her needs. As the severity of her condition became clear, my sister, Carolyn, and I asked mother about her plans, and she said she Page 7 needed to move into a nursing home.
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