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At the Limits of Care
Gendered Work and Stories That Matter
Janna Klostermann
After sharing her personal experience of working in care and being subsumed by it, Klostermann takes a story-based approach to life history research, analyzing the experiences of 12 diverse care workers and former care workers to learn how gendered care work is organized in inequitable and unsustainable ways that can be difficult to leave, and how care work can be imagined in other ways, ways where workers and organizations set limits and boundaries, and where care-related responsibilities are renegotiated, and gendered meanings and expectations are rethought.
