Women's caring : feminist perspectives on social welfare
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Women's caring : feminist perspectives on social welfare
Oxford University Press, 1998
2nd ed
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Description
Most of the caring work in our society is done by women. This work is often hidden in the roles of mothers, daughters, and wives and is undervalued outside the home as women work in the community as volunteers, in the 'caring' professions, and in low-wage jobs in hospitals, child-care centres, and homemaking services. In this second edition of Women's Caring, a ground-breaking feminist perspective on social welfare in Canada, the editors and their contributors have added three new chapters-on women of colour, women abused in intimate relationships, and Canada's live-in caregiver policy. As well, the entire book has been widely updated and revised to reflect the changed legal, political, and policy contexts and the growing literature on the formal paid and informal unpaid caring work that women perform.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- ONE: PERSPECTIVES ON CARING
- 1. Women's Caring: Work Expanding, State Contracting
- 2. Women's Professions and an Ethic of Care
- 3. Gender, Poverty, and Women's Caring
- 4. Caring and Women of Colour: Living the Intersecting Oppressions of Race, Class, and Gender
- TWO: LIVING THE REALITIES OF CARE
- 5. Still Girls Learn to Care: Girls Policed to Care
- 6. Dutiful Daughters and Undemanding Mothers: Constraining Images of Giving and Receiving Care in Middle and Later Life
- 7. Caught in Tangled Webs of Care: Women Abused in Intimate Relationships
- 8. Contradictions in Child Welfare: Neglect and Responsibility
- THREE: POLICY DIRECTIONS AND CARING EXPECTATIONS
- 9. The Child-Care Debate: Fading Hopes and Shifting Sands
- 10. Enter the Filipina Nanny: An Examination of Canada's Live-In Caregiver Policy
- 11. From Home Care to Social Care: The Value of a Vision
- Index
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