Recommended by Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Professor of Gender and Women's Studies.
"A brilliant exploration of the emergence of contractualism in moral and political discourse as the basis for 'free' labor relations and its ambiguous impacts on law and policy governing coverture in marriage, vagrancy and begging, labor relations, and prostitution."
"This ethnographic study of African American women hospital workers expands the concept of care work to encompass not only the care of patients, but also the maintaining of work, community, and kin ties and well-being."
"A collection of articles by leading scholars on conceptions of dependence and independence that have shaped American policies and programs on caring, and that offers alternative conceptions that would support reform."
"A feminist philosopher analyzes theories of justice in order to make the argument that any conception of justice must take into account situations of dependency and those who care for dependents."
"Sheds new light on the role of white women reformers and missionaries in efforts to “civilize” and acculturate indigenous peoples by removing native children from their families and placing them under white tutelage in boarding schools or white households."
"Field work in two cities and interviews with single mothers who have at various times been on welfare reveal that work requirements force them into dead-end part-time employment that keeps their families in poverty and require them to juggle multiple jobs that leave little time and energy for care for their children."
"History of how women have been shut out of entitlement programs and relegated to means-tested programs such as welfare: and how African American and Mexican American single mothers have been excluded from even these minimal benefits through race-based 'employable mother' rules."
"Scholar and activist Chang highlights the global and local forces tracking immigrant women into low-paying work as nannies, domestic workers, janitors and health care workers."
"A history of private caregiving based on private letters and diaries of rural and urban women involved in the often arduous work of nursing and caring for sick and infirm kin and neighbors."
