This module gathers case studies, people, and readings related to recovery as a domestic, social, and political act. Key readings are linked to their full notes.
Reading: Taking Care by Sarah DiGregorio (2024)
A reported history of nursing in the United States, Taking Care traces how care work—particularly nursing—has been systematically undervalued, gendered, and racialized. It reveals how care has always existed outside of institutions, often in the home, and how professionalization has both elevated and constrained that labor. This reading grounds the module in the political and structural realities of recovery, and asks who is responsible for care when recovery returns to the domestic sphere.
Reading: On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf (1926)
Read Full Notes Here In this essay, Woolf asks why illness—so common, so profound—is largely absent from literature, and explores the altered perceptions and interior experiences it brings. She positions illness as a valid site of consciousness, not just a disruption. This reading offers a philosophical and sensory lens on recovery, helping to frame the home not only as a place of physical convalescence but as a container for meaning, slowness, and care. N
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On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf (1926)