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Social Science Women's Studies

Women's Caring

edited by Carol T. Baines, Patricia M. Evans & Sheila M. Neysmith

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Jul 1998
Category
Women's Studies
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780195413021
    Publish Date
    Jul 1998
    List Price
    $28.95

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Description

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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Contributor Notes

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