Acknowledgments
Part I: Theoretical Issues
Preface
1: Circles of Care: An Introductory Essay
Emily K. Abel and Margaret K. Nelson
2: Toward a Feminist Theory of Caring
Berenice Fisher and Joan Tronto
Part II: The Domestic Domain
Preface
3: Family Care of the Frail Elderly
Emily K. Abel
4: Gender Differences in Spouse Management of the Caregiver Role
Baila Miller
Part III: Formal Organizations
Preface
5: Alice in the Human Services: A Feminist Analysis of Women in the Caring Professions
Berenice Fisher
6: The Duty or Right to Care? Nursing and Womanhood in Historical Perspective
Susan M. Reverby
7: Caring for the Institutionalized Mentally Retarded: Work Culture and Work-Based Social Support
Rebecka Inga Lundgren and Carole H. Browner
8: Nursing Homes As Trouble
Timothy Diamond
9: Does It Pay to Care?
Karen Brodkin Sacks
Part IV: Unaffiliated Providers
Preface
10: Mothering Others' Children: The Experiences of Family Day Care Providers
Margaret K. Nelson
11: Experts and Caregivers: Perspectives on Underground Day Care
Elaine Enarson
12: Licensed Lay Midwifery and Medical Models of Childbirth
Rose Weitz and Deborah A. Sullivan
Part V: Overlapping Responsibilities
Preface
13: Double Jeopardy: The Costs of Caring at Work and at Home
Nancy L. Marshall, Rosalind C. Barnett, Grace K. Baruch, and Joseph H. Pleck
14: Family Perceptions of Care in a Nursing Home
Barbara Bowers
15: Children's Caregivers and Ideologies of Parental Inadequacy
Julia Wrigley
Contributors
Index