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From birth to death, we care and are cared for by others. Yet we rarely acknowledge care except when it fails. In Love, Money, Duty, Rachel Adams examines the stories we tell about care, those who do the work, and those who depend on it. These narratives, she argues, help us better understand our complicated feelings about care and the obligations that come with it.
Combining insightful and compassionate readings of writers and artists—among them Toni Morrison, Susan Sontag, Roz Chast, Sally Mann, and Jamaica Kincaid—with stories of her own experiences, Adams analyzes the work, feelings, and ethical dilemmas associated with care, including unwelcome emotions such as boredom, resentment, exhaustion, and disgust. From the universal dependence of infancy to elder care and from the intimacy of home and family to institutions like hospitals, nursing facilities, and asylums, Love, Money, Duty considers our ambivalence about vulnerability and need and how it is shaped by capitalism, race, and gender.
Drawing from moral philosophy, gender and queer theory, critical race and disability studies, and health humanities, Adams treats care as a form of work, a feeling, an ethic, and an art. Exploring the radical possibilities of care and the devastating consequences of its failure, this book invites readers to appreciate care that works, recognizing the creativity and resourcefulness of dependent people and their caregivers.
Contents
Care: Fourteen Axioms
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Care?
Part I: Next of Kin
1. The Folded Timescapes of Maternal Care
2. The Elongated Timescapes of Sibling Care
3. Lateral Kinship and the Borrowed Time of HIV/AIDS
4. Slow Emergencies and the Care-to-Come: Dementia in the Family
Part II: The Subjects of Care
5. Writing on Crip Time: Our Dependent Bodies, Our Interdependent Selves
Part III: Professing Care
6. Theory of Minds: The Irreconcilable Temporalities of Paying for Care and Caring for Work
7. Committed: Asylum as Care and Its Opposite
Caring Machines, an Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
