Acknowledgments Part 1: Care Junkie Diaries: The Memoir 1. Starting at the Limits 2. Ship of Fools? 3. Care Junkie Diaries 4. Turned In 5. Daddy Loves You 6. Escape Velocity 7. The Flinch Factor Part 2: Towards a Counter Politics of Care 8.
Focusing Questions 9. Advancing a Counter Politics of Care through Feminist Research 10. Outline of the Book Part 3: What Stories Do We Tell about Care, and How Can We Tell New Ones? 11. Women Talking 12. Situating Stories of Women and Care 13. Care Conditions in Ontario Part 4: Reaching the Limits: Inequitable Care Conditions and the Moral, Feminine Impossible 14. Narrative Silences: Did It Rattle You as Well or Do You Remember--? 15. Moralizing Tropes: Reaching One's Limits as an Embodied Breaking Point and Moral, Feminine Achievement 16.
The Body Says "No" 17. People that Care the Most 18. Guilt on Top of That 19. Rethinking Moral Captivity, Even If That's Just How the Story Gets Told 20. Final Thoughts Part 5: Loosening the Grip: Reimagined "Care Ethics" and the Politics of Responsibility 21. "Heartbreakers Leave" and Other Tropes 22. Women Leave: Finding Flow or Wading through Swamps 23. The Strategies Women Use to "Get Out" Tell Us What They Are Up Against 24.
Negotiating One's Own and Others' Care Needs 25. Rethinking and Challenging Moral, Gendered Imperatives to Care 26. Imagining Alternatives for One's Life and Work 27. Rethinking Care as a Domain of Struggle 28. Final Thoughts 29. Interlude: A Different Kind of #MeToo? Part 6: Thinking "Differently and More Deeply about Care Stories": Women "Set Up" and Summoned across the Life Course 30. "Some People Like a Big Frenzy" and Other Tropes 31. "Set Up" and Summoned across the Life Course: Shifting Gender Relations and What "Care" Evokes 32.
"What's not to love?": Finding Meaning in the Care One Is Coerced to Provide 33. "Good Girls" and "Rebels": Recasting the Caring Role 34. The "Only One," the "Only Thing," or "Part of the Team": Intimate and Institutional Relations 35. Rethinking Individualizing Tropes, Imagining Conditions to Pull Things Off 36. Final Thoughts Conclusion: A Counter Politics Playbook? 37. What the Research Reveals 38. The Power of the Process: A Counter Politics Playbook? Appendix 1: Care Junkie Recovery Group Appendix 2: Overview of Participants and Interview Process References Index About the Author.