Care & Caregiving
Resources Bank
Explore resources that dive into care and caregiving and help us imagine a better future.
PODCASTS
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Intentional communities may offer solutions for loneliness and other problems of an atomized society.
Click this link to listen to this podcast by the Ezra Klein Show.
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Calling all Caregivers!
Today is a tribute to the everyday efforts of all caregivers who are holding up the sky for everyone else.
Ai-jen Poo is here shining a light on why caregivers are exhausted, unsupported, and overwhelmed – all while doing the work that makes everything else possible.
Click this link to listen to this episode of We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle podcast.
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In this episode, the question is: What’s the biggest cultural barrier between feminists and their ability to complete the stress response cycles?
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Randi Schofield is the sole provider for an ailing father, and at the same time for her own children — a situation now common among Americans in their 30s and 40s.
Click this link to listen to this episode of the New York Times’ Sunday Read
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More moms today are struggling to balance work and family life, often with little support. Professor Caitlyn Collins breaks down how US moms are doing these days, how our family support system compares to other countries, and what needs to change to better support working mothers year-round.
Click this link to listen to this episode of the Scholars Strategy Network’s podcast.
BOOKS
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Venture with Hooks into her perspective on love in her value-filled chapters about what love is. This non-academic, though the intellectually written book, will allow you to consider your own thoughts and views on what love is while giving you cultural awareness on what society allows us to accept and what we are taught to believe love is.
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An eye-opening reckoning with the care economy, from its roots in racial capitalism to its exponential growth as a new site of profit and extraction.
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Ai-jen Poo outlines a road map for how we can become a more caring nation, providing solutions for fixing our fraying safety net while also increasing opportunities for women, immigrants, and the unemployed in our workforce. As Poo has said, “Care is the strategy and the solution toward a better future for all of us.”
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Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply tied to race and racism.
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Simple-yet-powerful ways to establish healthy boundaries in all aspects of life.
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Already Toast tells the story of Kate Washington’s struggle to care for her seriously ill husband, offering a revealing look at the role unpaid family caregivers play in a society that fails to provide them with structural support.
ARTICLES
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Click this link to learn more about Breya Johnson and a reading list from her teach-in series.
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RESEARCH
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This list offers a diverse yet inclusive selection of articles relating to care work published in Gender & Society, between 2000 and 2013.
BY TOPIC
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Jobs Aplenty, but a Shortage of Care Keeps Many Women From Benefiting - The New York Times
Providing Unpaid Household and Care Work in the United States: Uncovering Inequality - IWPR
Women's unpaid caregiving is worth more than $625 billion – and it could cost more
Essay Collection: Anne-Marie Slaughter's Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family - Signs
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