Caring For/Caring about

Women, Home Care, and Unpaid Caregiving
Herausgeber: Grant, Karen R; Willson, Kay; Pederson, Ann; Boscoe, Madeline; Armstrong, Pat; Amaratunga, Carol

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Produktbeschreibung

Caring For/Caring About explores the complex nature of caring in Canadian society today by examining current research on women, home care, and unpaid caregiving.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9781551930480
• ISBN-10: 155193048X
• Artikelnr.: 42835268

Autorenporträt

Edited by Karen Grant, Carol Amaratunga, Pat Armstrong, Madeline Boscoe, Ann Pederson, and Kay Willson

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Thinking it Through: Women, Work, and Caring in the New Millennium, Pat
Armstrong and Hugh Armstrong
2. One Hundred Years of Caregiving, Pat Armstrong and Olga Kits
3. Designing Home and Community Care for the Future: Who Needs to Care?
Nancy Guberman
4. What Research Reveals about Gender, Home Care, and Caregiving: Overview
and Policy Implications, Marika Morris
5. Redefining Home Care for Women with Disabilities: A Call for
Citizenship, Kari Krogh
6. Aboriginal Women and Home Care, Shelly Thomas Prokop, Erika Haug,
Michelle Hogan, Jason McCarthy, and Lorraine McDonald
7. 'Just Fed and Watered': Women's Experiences of the Gutting of Home Care
in Ontario, Jane Aronson
Conclusions
About the Contributors
Index