Lee Wallace
Lee Wallace is an Associate Professor in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. Her latest book, Reattachment Theory: Queer Cinema of Remarriage, is forthcoming in April 2020.
All essays by Lee Wallace
Mother Courage
A month into my summer job, I said to my mother with unusual vehemence that I never wanted to end up in a rest home. By then, I knew some of the residents better and alongside the mandated ministrations of care – the quickly learned techniques of the sponge-bath, the assertive double-fold of a hospital corner when making the beds and the fitting of a prosthetic half-leg – I had come to care for them in my own fashion.
Apr. 2020 •
Health and bodies • Domesticity and Care