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Amy and Margaret talk with Dr. Allison Alford, communication scholar and author of the new book Good Daughtering: The Work You’ve Always Done, the Credit You’ve Never Gotten, and How to Finally Feel Like Enough.
Dr. Alford explains the concept of daughtering—the emotional, logistical, and mental labor adult daughters perform to assist their parents and to hold families together. Drawing on more than a decade of qualitative research, she explains how this work is often unrecognized and uncounted.
We discuss kin-keeping, invisible labor, and the pressures women face to be “good daughters.” Dr. Alford explains how cultural expectations, gender norms, and family systems reinforce this burden—and why naming it is the first step toward change. You are already doing more than you think—and you deserve credit for it.
Here's where you can find Allison:
www.daughtering101.com
@daughtering101 on FB, IG, and TikTok
Buy GOOD DAUGHTERING: https://bookshop.org/a/12099/9780063436428
Read Sensemaking in Organizations: Reflections on Karl Weick and Social Theory
What Fresh Hell is co-hosted by Amy Wilson and Margaret Ables.
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