TY  - GEN
N2  - 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.
DO  - 10.6083/bpxhc42010
DO  - doi
AB  - 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.
T1  - Women's subjectivity in care labor for parents with life-limiting illness
ED  - Hassouneh, Dena
ED  - Advisor
DA  - 2023-09-22
AU  - Tarter, Robin
L1  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42010/files/Tarter.Robin.2023.pdf
PB  - Oregon Health and Science University
LA  - eng
PY  - 2023-09-22
ID  - 42010
L4  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42010/files/Tarter.Robin.2023.pdf
KW  - Terminal Care
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Caregivers
KW  - Caregiver Burden
KW  - family caregiving
KW  - end of life
KW  - life-limiting illness
KW  - poststructuralism
KW  - care labor
TI  - Women's subjectivity in care labor for parents with life-limiting illness
Y1  - 2023-09-22
L2  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42010/files/Tarter.Robin.2023.pdf
LK  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42010/files/Tarter.Robin.2023.pdf
UR  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42010/files/Tarter.Robin.2023.pdf
ER  -