Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity ed. Maurice Hamington and Michael Flower (review)

Christine L. Garlough
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inflicted upon them. Similarly, in the negative media portrayals about welfare recipients, women like Yvonne Johnson and others come through as making deliberate choices about the kinds of work they will do or their use of recreational drugs to mitigate stress caused by the oppressive structure and sheer disrespect of welfare-to-work programs. However, these concrete examples of Black women’s agency, even within structural limitations, are much too few. More of these would have buttressed Kandaswamy’s queer theorizations. They would also have furthered Kandaswamy’s methodological commitment to working with a hostile archive to further illuminate a more complex history, specifically the ways in which Black women utilized mobility and migration, leisure and recreation, and epistemologies and praxis to not just resist the structural violences of Reconstruction and welfare era policy, but also the ways they worked to manifest their freedom dreams. Domestic Contradictions serves as a methodological model in interdisciplinarity. More importantly though, it offers readers ideological and policy linkages between Reconstruction and Welfare Reform, connections not generally clear to students at all levels—from high school to graduate school, whether US history or gender studies majors. The book demonstrates the ways both eras constituted economic, political, and cultural crises ripe for the emergence of more just approaches to human need. And yet state policies and practices of these two eras “forced Black women to adhere to heteronormative ideals and [to] engage in highly exploitative forms of labor,” in order to be citizens deserving of support (196). Examining the similarities across the eras showcases the “centrality of forced labor” (194) and the role of “gendered forms of anti-Black racism” (196) in US welfare ideas and policies.
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强加给他们的。同样,在媒体对福利接受者的负面描述中,像伊冯娜·约翰逊(Yvonne Johnson)和其他人这样的女性,在她们将要从事的工作种类或使用娱乐性药物方面做出了深思熟虑的选择,以减轻压迫性结构和对福利工作计划的完全不尊重所造成的压力。然而,这些黑人妇女能动性的具体例子,即使在结构限制范围内,也太少了。如果有更多这样的例子,就会支持Kandaswamy的古怪理论。他们也会进一步推动Kandaswamy的方法论承诺,与敌对档案一起工作,进一步阐明更复杂的历史,特别是黑人妇女利用流动性和迁移,休闲和娱乐,认识论和实践的方式,不仅抵制重建和福利时代政策的结构性暴力,而且还努力实现她们的自由梦想。国内矛盾是一个跨学科的方法论模型。但更重要的是,它为读者提供了重建和福利改革之间意识形态和政策上的联系,这种联系从高中到研究生,无论是美国历史还是性别研究专业,各个层次的学生通常都不清楚。这本书展示了两个时代构成经济、政治和文化危机的方式,这些危机已经成熟,需要更公正的方法来满足人类的需求。然而,这两个时代的国家政策和做法“迫使黑人妇女坚持异性恋规范的理想,并从事高度剥削的劳动形式”,以便成为值得支持的公民(196)。考察不同时代的相似之处,展示了“强迫劳动的中心地位”(194)和“性别形式的反黑人种族主义”(196)在美国福利思想和政策中的作用。
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