Care work
Subtitle: gender, class, and the welfare state
By: edited by Madonna Harrington Meyer.
Contributors: Harrington Meyer, Madonna, 1959-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Public welfare -- United States; Social service -- United States; Sex role -- United States; United States -- Social policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Historical perspective on care -- Emily K. Abel; title: History of men's caring -- Scott Coltrane and Justin Galt; title: Claiming the right to care -- Sonya Michel; title: Impact of social activism on gender identity and care work -- Ann Herda-Rapp; title: Cash in care -- Clare Ungerson; title: Caring by the book -- Deborah Stone; title: Conflicts of caring -- Mary Tuominen; title: Paid emotional care -- Francesca M. Cancian; title: International division of caring and cleaning work -- Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo; title: Examining care at welfare's end -- Stacey J. Oliker; title: Paying for care -- Demie Kurz; title: Filling in the gaps in long term care insurance -- Jennifer M. Mellor; title: Shifting the burden back to families? -- Madonna Harrington Meyer and Michelle Kesterke Storbakken; title: Marketization and the struggling logics of (home) care in The Netherlands -- Trudie Knijn; title: Disability reform and women's caring work -- Rannveig Traustadóttr; title: "Making a way outta no way" -- Assata Zerai; title: Hope for the children-- Brenda Krause Eheart and Martha Bauman Power.