UNSPECIFIED (1993) SOCIAL DIVISIONS IN CARING. WOMENS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL FORUM, 16 (5). pp. 461-470. ISSN 0277-5395

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Abstract

This article is concerned with the perspectives on caring developed by academic feminist researchers in Britain over the last decade. It notes how these perspectives defined caring in terms of the unpaid domestic and personal services provided through the social relations of marriage and kinship to those who found it hard to meet their own care needs. The article draws on Black feminist and disabled feminist perspectives, together with recent autocritical work by academic feminist researchers, to unpack this concept of care. It focuses on what the concept obscures about the social divisions that mediate women's experiences of care. It examines what is eclipsed and who is excluded from feminist perspectives on caring which are grounded in the experience of giving care on an unpaid basis within kinship networks based on marriage.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Journal or Publication Title:	WOMENS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL FORUM
Publisher:	PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
ISSN:	0277-5395
Date:	September 1993
Volume:	16
Number:	5
Number of Pages:	10
Page Range:	pp. 461-470
Publication Status:	Published
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/21063

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