Love, Money, Duty

Stories of Care in Our Times

Rachel Adams (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2025
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-21809-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Rachel Adams is professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Her books include Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery (2014).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	24.02.2025
Reihe/Serie	Gender and Culture
Zusatzinfo	16 black-and-white photographs and comics
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-231-21809-5 / 0231218095
ISBN-13	978-0-231-21809-2 / 9780231218092
Zustand	Neuware