Policy Is Personal
Sex, Gender, and Informal Care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11089765 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emily K Abel (0000-0002-0328-901X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 659 |
| Publication date | 1988-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Policy is personal: Sex, Gender, and Informal Care, Clare Ungerson, 1987 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2073990 |
| OpenAlex | W2087296380 |
| Language | EN |
The last ten years have seen an enormous upsurge in interest in policies for community care in all countries of the developed world. They all have ageing populations and most have governments committed to tight control of welfare expenditure. A major consequence has been the growing attention paid to the position of 'carers' - those who find themselves caring for their relatives in their own homes and for no pay. A considerable academic literature now exists documenting the problems of such carers, and pointing out that it is women who largely bear the burden of care. This book looks at the problem of care from a different angle and asks the question 'Why do people care?'. Using findings from her study of carers living in Canterbury, England, Clare Ungerson discusses the many different kinds of answer to that question. In particular she draws attention to how men and women carers explain their motivation differently, how women, especially, are 'negotiated' into caring by their relatives, and how men and women make sense of the caring they do using different kinds of language. The book develops our understanding of the complicated issues of familial love, duty, and kinship-based responsibility, and of masculine and feminine identity in the context of informal care. It will appeal to a wide audience, including students and teachers of social policy, sociology, women's studies, community care planners, social workers, and carers themselves
Political science · Sociology · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies
What Is ‘Body Work’? A Review of the Literature
The Instability of the Caring Body
You're Not Just in There to Do the Work
Women's Sense of Responsibility for the Care of Old People
What are we talking about when we talk about care? A conceptual review of the literature
Revealing the shape of knowledge using an intersectionality lens
Whose Care? Whose Costs? Whose Benefit? A Critical Review of Research on Case Management and Informal Care
Community health
Los cuidados familiares de salud en las personas ancianas y las políticas sociales
Politics and markets
Critics of totalitarianism
Fascism and racism
The advent of the masses and the making of the modern theory of democracy
Conservatism
Nationalism and imperialism
The end of the welfare state?
The coming of the welfare state
Christian democracy
From the state to the family
Motivation, agency, and public policy
The adult worker model family, gender equality and care
How Welfare States Care
Social Politics and the Commodification of Care
The informal sector of welfare
De l'«economia informal» a «formes de treball
Informal care in farming families in Northern Ireland
Vejez dependiente, políticas y calidad de vida
Social Work
Membership Categories and Time Appraisal in Interviews with Family Caregivers of Disabled Elderly
The household context for women's health care decisions
Cultures of Ageing in Thailand and Australia. (What Can an Ageing Body Do?)
Care trans_formieren
Care Poverty
A preparatory study of care for elderly women in rural Kenya
Mothers Who Care
Toward a Sociology of (Gendered) Disgust
The Politics of Caregiving
Health services use by older people with disabilities in Spain
Care dependence in old age
The Meaning of Informal Care
Informal Care of Dependent Elderly at Home — Some Swedish Experiences
The social and political context of formal dementia care provision
Caring for Family Caregivers in Australia
Innovations and Care of the Elderly
Elderly Carers
Women's Perspectives on Informal Care of the Elderly
I Don't Feel Old’
Making Sense of Dementia
Integrating Carers into the Service System
Women and private medicine
The Body in Social Policy
Re-Shaping Social Care Services for Older People in England
Women, Economic Dependency and Citizenship
Gender, Cash and Informal Care
Carers and Services
Moving to 'Age-appropriate' Housing
The Concept of Caring in Feminist Research
Men
Comparing the Informal Sphere
De-Constructing Concepts of Care
The Dirty History of Feminism and Sociology
Family Structures and the Moral Politics of Caring
Embracing Dependency
Competence versus Care? Gender and Caring Work Revisited
Reciprocity, Autonomy, and Vulnerability in Men's Experiences of Informal Cancer Care
Maintaining Caregiving at Home
Contradictions in Caring
Divorce, Remarriage and Family Obligations
Money for nothing
After I've Done the Mum Things
Very close parent/child relationships
A Comparative Analysis of Personalisation
The Resilience of Personal Economy of Ageing
Comparative framework for care regime analysis in East Asia
Individual and Geographic Factors in the Formation of Care Networks in the UK
Whose ‘Family’? A Note on ‘The Changing Sociological Construct of the Family’
Parasitism and phallocentrism in social provisions for the aged
Sons, Daughters, and Intergenerational Social Support
The Role of Adult Siblings in Providing Social Support to the Severely Mentally Ill
Parent Care as Unpaid Family Labor
Values beyond value? Is anything beyond the logic of capital
Longitudinal outcomes of psychoeducational support for family caregivers of dependent elderly persons
Helpful citizens and caring families
Motives, experiences and strategies of next of kin helping older relatives in the Swedish welfare context
Informal care in Sweden
Links between informal caregiving and volunteering in Sweden
Keeping the family balance – adult daughters’ experiences of roles and strategies when supporting caring fathers
Kinship foster parenting; gender, class and labour-force participation
Caring in Families
Measuring the impact of informal caring’ by S. Orbell
Integrating sociological and psychological perspectives on informal care
The Relevance of Gender in the Care of Elders
We Don't Call It a ‘Circle’”
Staying with People Who Slap Us Around
Lay carers of patients admitted to a hospice
Informal caregiving for frail older people at home and in long-term care institutions
Legacies of caring
Carers' reflections on nursing home and NHS long-stay care for elderly patients
Health on borrowed time? Prioritizing and meeting needs in low-income households
Gender differences in informal caring
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |