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Women's Caring: Feminist Perspectives on Social Welfare - Softcover

 
9780195413021: Women's Caring: Feminist Perspectives on Social Welfare
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0195413024 ISBN 13: 9780195413021
Publisher: OUP Canada, 1999

Synopsis

Most of the caring work in our society is done by women. This work is often hidden in the roles of mothers, daughters, and wives and is undervalued outside the home as women work in the community as volunteers, in the 'caring' professions, and in low-wage jobs in hospitals, child-care centres, and homemaking services.

In this second edition of Women's Caring, a ground-breaking feminist perspective on social welfare in Canada, the editors and their contributors have added three new chapters―on women of colour, women abused in intimate relationships, and Canada's live-in caregiver policy. As well, the entire book has been widely updated and revised to reflect the changed legal, political, and policy contexts and the growing literature on the formal paid and informal unpaid caring work that women perform.

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About the Author

Sheila M. Neysmith is a professor in the Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto.

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Publisher
OUP Canada
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0195413024
ISBN 13 
9780195413021
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
263
Editor
Baines Carol T., Evans Patricia M., Neysmith Sheila M.