The Instability of the Caring Body
Gender and Caregivers of Confused Older People
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4634375 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Opie (Department of Sociology and Social Work at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31-50 |
| Publication date | 1994-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Health Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/104973239400400103 |
| OpenAlex | W2148437124 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 21 |
Literature on caregiving identifies gender as a major social policy issue. It highlights caring as grounded in assumptions about women's natural caring role and embedded social expectations and behavioral patterns. This literature has typically employed a universalized notion of "woman." It has left differences between women substantially unexplored. Differences in caring practice between genders have been typically represented as fixed, and the dynamic and fluid dimension of gender has been suppressed. Based on a postmodern reading of accounts of caregiving by 28 New Zealand female and male White caregivers, the article theorizes gender as both unstable and rigid in its everyday manifestations. Gender categories are described as constituted by complex social processes and representations and as crossing sex-speciic boundaries. The article seeks to achieve an analysis of research data that accurately maps the complexities of gender and that begins to explore the processes by which individuals cross gender boundaries
Developmental psychology · Doing gender · Epistemology · Grounded theory · Postmodernism · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2019 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |