| Description |
ix, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
SUNY series on women and work |
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SUNY series on women and work.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Circles of care : an introductory essay / Emily K. Abel and Margaret K. Nelson -- Toward a feminist theory of caring / Berenice Fisher and Joan Tronto -- Family care of the frail elderly / Emily K. Abel -- Gender differences in spouse management of the caregiver role / Baila Miller -- Alice in the human services : a feminist analysis of women in the caring professions / Berenice Fisher -- The duty or right to care? : nursing and womanhood in historical persective / Susan M. Reverby -- Caring for the institutionalized mentally retarded : work culture and work-based social support / Rebecka Inga Lungren and Carole H. Browner -- Nursing homes as trouble / Timothy Diamond -- Does it pay to care? / Karen Brodkin Sacks -- Mothering others' children : the experiences of family day care providers / Margaret K. Nelson -- Experts and caregivers : perspectives on underground day care / Elaine Enarson -- Licensed lay midwifery and medical models of childbirth / Rose Weitz and Deborah A. Sullivan -- Double jeopardy : the costs of caring at work and at home / Nancy L. Marshall ... [et al.] -- Family perceptions of care in a nursing home / Barbara Bowers -- Children's caregivers and ideologies of parental inadequacy / Julia Wrigley. |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- Psychology.
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Caregivers -- United States -- Psychology.
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Human services personnel -- United States -- Psychology.
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| Added Author |
Abel, Emily K.
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Nelson, Margaret K., 1944-
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| ISBN |
0791402630 alkaline paper |
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0791402649 paperback alkaline paper |
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