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Forced to Care

Coercion and Caregiving in America

Evelyn Nakano Glenn

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ISBN 9780674064157

Publication Date: 03/05/2012

272 pages

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1. Who Cares?
2. Caring for One’s Own and Caring for a Living
3. The Movement to Reform Women’s Caring
4. From Moral Duty to Legal Obligation
5. Paid Caring in the Home
6. Neoliberalism and Globalization
7. Creating a Caring Society
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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