By Professor Julia T. Wood
At a time whilst experiences recommend the common American girl spends seventeen years taking good care of kids and eighteen years taking good care of getting older mom and dad, Julia T. wooden examines how tradition creates and sustains our definitions of being concerned, determines who cares alongside gender strains, and assigns the lowered worth that worrying has in our society.Wood argues that America’s increasing want for being concerned is at present being met at an unacceptably excessive rate to caregivers. it's time, she believes, to ascertain caregiving roles and the non-public, political, and social concerns that encompass the query of who cares. being concerned needs to be famous and promoted as an task that instructions the dignity and participation of all participants of our society—men and girls alike.Only by means of imposing adjustments within the simple cloth of yankee tradition, affecting either the constitution and the rules of our society and govt, do we, wooden concludes, carve out a approach of being concerned that might realize being concerned as everyone’s accountability.
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Nurturing behavior. Title. 4dc20 93-16226 ISBN 0-8093-1816-4 CIP ISBN 0-8093-1948-9 pbk. 48-1984. Page v This book is dedicated to my mother, Frances Becker Wood, whose life was organized around caring for others, including me. In so many ways she made me and my life possible. From her I learned much about caring and just as much about the exorbitant costs it imposes on caregivers. FRANCES BECKER WOOD 23 February 192318 March 1991 Page vii Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii 1. A Personal Introduction 1 2.
From these relationships and my responsibilities to protect, help, and comfort my father and mother, I learned much about what caring for others means in contemporary America. I discovered how much time, energy, and patience are required to care for others; I came to appreciate the enormous difference Page 2 caring can make to individuals who are ill, in pain, and facing death; and I realized some of the costs a caregiver incurs in a society that defines caring as a low priority. My personal experiences enkindled a professional interest in learning more about the nexus among caring, women, and culture.
Dean Gillian T. Cell, in particular, provided material and personal assistance for this project. I also wish to thank the Department of Speech Communication, and especially my chair, William Balthrop, for furnishing research assistance. My colleagues, along with graduate and undergraduate students, have consistently stimulated and challenged me with rich, provocative, and often delightfully impertinent responses to my work. Professor Beverly Long has been exceedingly generous in both her friendship and her support of my work and personal priorities.