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Already ToastKate Washington

Already Toast

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"Already Toast is a memoir and feminist cultural critique of how unpaid family caregiving affects women in America"-- "The story of one woman's struggle to care for her seriously ill husband--and a revealing look at the role unpaid family caregivers play in a society that fails to provide them with structural support. Already Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be, how difficult it is to find support, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles. When Kate Washington and her husband,…

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2 editions
  • Hardcover · English · 2021
    Beacon Press · 224 pages · 9780807011508
  • Other · English · 2022
    Beacon Press · 9780807055526
SociologyCaregiversPsychologyWomenBurn out (Psychology)MEDICALCaregivingBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY