In this dissertation, I explore the mechanisms by which providing end-of-life care labor to parents harms women’s subjectivities. Subjectivity encompasses a person’s positioning as an agentic and authoritative being (rather than an object to be rigidly defined and to be acted upon), one who can safely express and embody a multiplicity of identities and create unique and dynamic (différant) meanings through intersubjective interaction. By deconstructing dominant discursive structures taken to be “objective” knowledge, we make visible the means by which our agency, identities, and meanings are circumscribed. In chapter two, we performed a quantitative deconstruction of survey data on “choice in the role of caregiver,” showing the unique salience of this topic for persons providing care labor to parents and grandparents, but also demonstrating the insufficiency of binary, decontextualized conceptions of choice for exploring agency and positioning.