The personal is political: Feminist geographies of/in austerity
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DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.04.010
Abstract: Abstract Geographers are beginning to more fully consider the ways in which austerity can be encountered at and across a range of social spaces, with growing interest in how austerity politics play out in everyday… read more here.
Keywords: political feminist; care work; personal political; austerity ... See more keywords
Sexual harassment in care work - Dilemmas and consequences: A qualitative investigation.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2017.02.018
Abstract: BACKGROUND Care workers are often exposed to sexual harassment from patients. Research shows that such exposure may have detrimental effects on mental health of the care workers. Inappropriate sexual behaviour from patients is a particular… read more here.
Keywords: harassment; care workers; care work; sexual harassment ... See more keywords
Which activities count? Using experimental data to understand conceptualizations of physical activity
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.10.002
Abstract: US health surveys consistently report that men and those with higher socioeconomic status (SES) engage in more physical activity than women and lower SES counterparts, using questions that ask about physical activity during leisure time.… read more here.
Keywords: house; care work; physical activity; activity ... See more keywords
Activists, care work, and the ‘cry of the ghetto’ in Nairobi, Kenya
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DOI: 10.1057/s41599-018-0078-8
Abstract: Community activists living and organizing in Nairobi’s harshest geographies are tasked not only with intervening for ‘justice’ but also with (re)establishing care and emotion in landscapes devastated by both colonial and neoliberal divestments and violence.… read more here.
Keywords: activists care; care work; cry ghetto; nairobi kenya ... See more keywords
Dressing a ghost: size and value of unpaid family care
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2018.1564116
Abstract: ABSTRACT Unpaid family care work encompasses care and assistance provided by members of a household to other members. It is not considered to be a productive activity, and its exclusion from national account statistics contributes… read more here.
Keywords: unpaid family; care work; family; family care ... See more keywords
Marking men, affect and care work: a study of middle-class Bengali masculinity in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland
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DOI: 10.1080/18902138.2021.1918501
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article examines Pulitizer prize-winning Indian American writer Jhumpa Lahiri's engagement with masculinity and care-work in The Lowland (2013). Situated in a middle-class Bengali family, the novel revolves around the individualistic aspirations and intellectual… read more here.
Keywords: care work; class bengali; masculinity; middle class ... See more keywords
Gendered impact of COVID-19 containment measures on unpaid care work and mental health in Europe: a scoping review protocol
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DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-060673
Abstract: Introduction Women are more likely than men to provide unpaid care work. Previous research has shown that lack of support for various forms of unpaid care work and work-family conflicts have negative impacts on caregivers’… read more here.
Keywords: health; unpaid care; care work; work ... See more keywords
The economic shift and beyond: Care as a contested terrain in contemporary capitalism
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DOI: 10.1177/0011392118765257
Abstract: This article argues that we are witnessing a fundamental transformation of capitalism. Under the auspices of an economic shift, social reproduction and constituent care and care work are undergoing a process of reorganization. The first… read more here.
Keywords: care care; economic shift; care work; care ... See more keywords
Children in paid care-giving work: Invisible receivers or active agents in caring relations?
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DOI: 10.1177/0907568217694420
Abstract: Despite the growing sociological and anthropological literature on paid care-giving and domestic work, there continues to be a gap in the scholarship on delegated care work, namely, the invisibility of children as care-receivers. The article… read more here.
Keywords: work; care giving; care work; children paid ... See more keywords
Care-work for colonial and contemporary white families in India: A historical-anthropology of the racialized romanticization of the ayah
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DOI: 10.1177/09213740221144045
Abstract: This article examines interracial gendered care-work through the figure of the ayah (maid) serving white families in India from the late-eighteenth to the twenty-first century. Historical and anthropological scholarships on domestic labor in India remain… read more here.
Keywords: ayah; white families; care work; families india ... See more keywords
Intelligent machines, care work and the nature of practical reasoning
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DOI: 10.1177/0969733018806348
Abstract: Background: The debate over the ethical implications of care robots has raised a range of concerns, including the possibility that such technologies could disrupt caregiving as a core human moral activity. At the same time,… read more here.
Keywords: machines care; care work; work nature; intelligent machines ... See more keywords