Caring and Gender

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.

• Part 1 1. Caring and GenderChapter 2 What is Caring?Chapter 3 Why Study Caring and Gender?Chapter 4 Women's Caregiving in Families: Natural or Social?Chapter 5 The Devaluation of CaregivingChapter 6 Caregiving and InequalityPart 7 2. Historical GlimpsesChapter 8 Colonial ConstraintsChapter 9 Work and Care Become "Separate Spheres"Chapter 10 "Every Woman Is a Nurse": Caregiving Becomes a ProfessionPart 11 3. Caring and FamiliesChapter 12 Families That Are Not Self-SufficientChapter 13 Parental Care for ChildrenChapter 14 Caring in CouplesChapter 15 Conflicts Between Paid Work and Family CaringChapter 16 Family Care for People Who Are Chronically Ill or Severely DisabledPart 17 4. Paid CaregivingChapter 18 Obstacles to Good Paid Care: Devaluing Caring, Profit-Making, Bureaucracy, and HierarchyChapter 19 Paid Care Can Be Good CareChapter 20 Undermining the Quality of Paid Care: The Example of Nursing HomesChapter 21 Separate, Gendered Spheres and the Devaluation of CaringChapter 22 Caregivers' Autonomy and Nonmedical Standards of Care: Case Studies of Good Paid CareChapter 23 The Care Receiver's PowerChapter 24 5. Governing CareChapter 25 How Do Governments Support Care?Chapter 26 Gender, Care and Welfare in the United StatesChapter 27 Government and Caregiving in Other Industrial CountriesChapter 28 The Threat of "Big Brother"Chapter 29 How Can Government Both Support Caregiving and Promote Gender Equality?Part 30 6. Caregiving in CommunitiesChapter 31 What Is Community Care?Chapter 32 What Are the Benefits of Care in Communities?Chapter 33 What Are the Limits of Caregiving in Communities?Part 34 7. The Future of CaregivingChapter 35 Explaining Gendered Caring and Gender InequalityChapter 36 Paths to Expanding Care and Gender Equality