Toward Aspirational Care Labor: Dementia Care Meets Documentary Filmmaking.
On film, care for people with dementia looks like bleak work. Tragedy and horror are the film genres most often deployed to represent dementia care, reflecting the austere material realities of that care in the United States today. Despite decades of feminist organizing around the importance of care...
| Publicado en: | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 237 - 259 |
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University of Chicago Press
Autumn2023
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