Caring For/Caring About: Women, Home Care, and Unpaid Caregiving

"Published Under the Garamond Imprint Women are estimated to comprise nearly 80 per cent of both paid and unpaid care workers, yet their numbers do not coincide with their influence. Caring For/Caring About explores the complex nature of caring in Canadian society today. It examines the current...

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Weitere Verfasser: Amaratunga, Carol (HerausgeberIn), Armstrong, Pat (HerausgeberIn), Boscoe, Madeline (HerausgeberIn), Grant, Karen R. (HerausgeberIn), Pederson, Ann (HerausgeberIn), Willson, Kay (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Toronto University of Toronto Press [2019]
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Zusammenfassung:"Published Under the Garamond Imprint Women are estimated to comprise nearly 80 per cent of both paid and unpaid care workers, yet their numbers do not coincide with their influence. Caring For/Caring About explores the complex nature of caring in Canadian society today. It examines the current research on women, home care and unpaid caregiving, and identifies the social conditions under which caregiving is undertaken. The book examines the global and local forces that shape caregiving, as well as the diverse experiences of women who care. Caring For/Caring About asks how we might create the conditions to make caring possible, for care is, after all, the objective and not the problem
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)
Beschreibung:1 online resource
ISBN:9781442602410
DOI:10.3138/9781442602410

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