Author: Abel, Emily K. & Nelson, Margaret K.; editors:
Title: Circles of Care: Work and Identity in Women's Lives
Description: Albany, State University of New York, (1990). orig.boards. 23x16cm, ix,326 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 15 papers. Includes: B. Fischer & J. Tronto "Toward a Feminist Theory of Caring"; E.K. Abel "Family Care of the Frail Elderly"; B. Miller "Gender Differences in Spouse Management of the Caregiver Role"; B. Fisher "Alice in the Human Services: A Feminist Analysis of Women in the Caring Professions"; S.M. Everby "The Duty or Right to Care? Nursing & Womanhood in Historical Perspective"; R.I. Lundgren & C.H. Browner "Caring for the Institutionalized Mentally Retarded: Work Culture & Work-Based Social Support"; T. Diamond "Nursing Homes as Trouble"; K.B. Sacks "Does It Pay to Care?"; M.K. Nelson "Mothering Others' Children: The Experiences of Family Day Care Providers"; E. Enarson "Experts & Caregivers: Perspectives on Underground Day Care"; R. Weitz & D.A. Sullivan "Licensed Lay Midwifery & Medical Models of Childbirth"; N.L. Marshall; et al: "Double Jeopardy: The Costs of Caring at Work & at Home"; B. Bowers "Family Perceptions of Care in a Nursing Home"; J. Wrigley "Children's Caregivers & Ideologies of Parental Inadequacy".

Keywords: Human Services Personnel, Labor Sociology, Feminist, Caregivers, Nursing Homes Nurse, Gender Women, Women's Nurses, Social Psychology, United States