Women's Caring: Feminist Perspectives on Social Welfare

Preface ONE: PERSPECTIVES ON CARING 1. Women's Caring: Work Expanding, State Contracting 2. Women's Professions and an Ethic of Care 3. Gender, Poverty, and Women's Caring 4. Caring and Women of Colour: Living the Intersecting Oppressions of Race, Class, and Gender TWO: LIVING THE REALITIES OF CARE 5. Still Girls Learn to Care: Girls Policed to Care 6. Dutiful Daughters and Undemanding Mothers: Constraining Images of Giving and Receiving Care in Middle and Later Life 7. Caught in Tangled Webs of Care: Women Abused in Intimate Relationships 8. Contradictions in Child Welfare: Neglect and Responsibility THREE: POLICY DIRECTIONS AND CARING EXPECTATIONS 9. The Child-Care Debate: Fading Hopes and Shifting Sands 10. Enter the Filipina Nanny: An Examination of Canada's Live-In Caregiver Policy 11. From Home Care to Social Care: The Value of a Vision Index