Stories of Caregiving Intersections of Academic Research and Women's Everyday Experiences

The article analyzes contemporary discourses and practices of caregiving and mothering. Using a case study of one employed mother as a starting point, the authors engage in writing-stories that combine the analyses of their e-mail and face-to-face conversations from the last couple of years with various journal entries and interdisciplinary research. The article concludes with a final section that articulates how caregiving discourses cut across public-private binaries in contradictory and productive ways. The analysis coalesces in a final writing-story.