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Caring and Gender
Author(s): Francesca M. Cancian (Author), Stacey J. Oliker (Author)
- Publisher: AltaMira Press
- Publication Date: 6 Sept. 1999
- Language: English
- Print length: 190 pages
- ISBN-10: 0761986863
- ISBN-13: 9780761986867
Book Description
Are women naturally better caregivers than men? Can paid care in an institutuion be good care? Can voluntary community care replace government welfare? Is the caring family disappearing? What role should government play in supporting or regulating families? Is day care for children as good as home care? Using engaging case studies and research findings, this lively new book from the Gender Lens Series explores these and other questions and controversies, challenging the notion that caregiving is a ‘natural’ pattern and demonstrating how it is thoroughly social. Written in an inviting and readable style, the authors address complex issues about caring, making them accessible to undergraduate students and lay people. The book shows those who will enter diverse caregiving professions how to see their particular occupation as influenced by the larger society and broader social relations of caring. It also shows how beliefs about gender and family shape caregiving, and how caregiving affects gender inequality.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Caring and Gender is a splendid synthesis of ideas and research that capture caring as work: intricate, invisible, underpaid and done mostly by women. It also helps bring us to a new appreciation of that work, and helps lead us toward its proper recognition.” — Timothy Diamond, Western Michigan University
