Testimonios of Care

Format
Hardback
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Country
United States
Published
27 August 2024
Pages
228
ISBN
9780816553228

Testimonios of Care

The first English-language collection of Latina/x caregiving testimonios, this volume gives voice to diverse Chicana/x and Latina/x caregiving experiences. Bringing together thirteen first-person accounts, these testimonios speak to the tragic flaws in our health-care system and the woefully undervalued labor of providing care to family and community.

The book opens with an introductory chapter by the three co-editors, and then is divided into three sections exploring the caregiver voice, community caregiving, and reflections that outline a Caregiver Bill of Rights and present a call to action. Throughout, contributors discuss kinship care, including formal and informal adoptions, community care, caregiving in professional health contexts, and the implicit caregiving inherent in teaching BIPOC students, which largely falls upon faculty of color.

Testimonios of Care gives voice to those who often are voiceless in histories of caregiving and is guided by Chicana and Latina feminist principles, which include solidarity between women of color, empathy, willingness to challenge the patriarchal medical health-care systems, questioning traditional gender roles and idealization of familia, and caring for self while caring for loved ones and community.

Contributors yvonne hurtado allen Angie Chabram Natalia Deeb-Sossa Yvette G. Flores InEs HernAndez-Avila ire'ne lara silva Josie MEndez-Negrete Maria R. Palacios Hector Rivera-Lopez Maria Angelina Soldatenko Anita Tijerina Revilla MOnica Torreiro-Casal Enriqueta Valdez-Curiel

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