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Caring for/Caring About
Women, Home Care, and Unpaid Caregiving
Karen R. Grant (Edited by), Carol Amaratunga (Edited by), Pat Armstrong (Edited by), Madeline Boscoe (Edited by), Ann Pederson (Edited by), Kay Willson (Edited by)
9781551930480
Paperback / softback, published 1 April 2004
208 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.3 kg
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.
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