Full Description
Care in Context is a thought-provoking book that looks at gender inequalities in the context of care. Drawing in part from unique transnational perspectives and gripping interviews, this book focuses on key questions that intellectuals, policy makers and all of us who care and need care have to ask, such as: What is good care? Who should be involved in providing it? And how should care be arranged and organized so that that the interests of both care givers and care recipients are equally provided for? Care is indispensable to human flourishing. Without it we cannot survive. It is vital to the development of all individuals and to that of the broader society. Increasing economic and health problems have also contributed to mounting care crises in different parts of the world. With this view, the book offers fresh and nuanced perspectives and is a definite must read for all those affected by issues of care.
Contents
Towards a critical theory of care. Theories and concepts of care: Revisiting the UNRISD research on the political and social economy of care: Implications for future research and policy; Integrating difference and care into social justice: Towards a normative framework for care, welfare and social cohesion; Care policy as government of life: Three models illustrated with Swiss examples; Care and social cohesion in South Africa: Political engineering versus dealing with social discordance; Feminist ethics of care through a Southern lens. Policy imperatives and care: Parental incapacity and institutional non-responsiveness: The care framework in prenatal and early life services in South Africa; The intersection of gendered subjectivities and child welfare discourses: An examination of the developmental child welfare model and the child protection model; The welfare mix, care and equality: Switzerland in comparative perspective; Private affairs: The welfare state, gender relations, and the Swiss road to neoliberalism; Are men's healthcare needs important?: A critical analysis of South African health policy. Practices and models of care: Developing a model for analysis of home-based care activities using South African data; Gender and care in the non-profit sector in South Africa: Implications for welfare policy; To care and to be cared for: The role of elderly people in the Swiss care regime; Faceless bureaucracy?: The challenges of gender-based violence and practices of care in higher education. Narratives of care: Narratives of gender and practices of care among young men and women in contemporary South Africa; 'I am a male, although I am a little bit soft': Men, gender, and care work in South Africa; Fragile families' experiences of caring for HIV-positive children: Selected cases from the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal; Caregiving in the era of HIV and AIDS: Experiences of a South African HIVpositive woman; Early motherhood, education and childcare: Experiences of social and institutional support among young mothers at school in Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal; Care in context: Prospective perspectives for research, policy development and public deliberation.
