Care Work : Gender, Labor, and the Welfare State (Paperback)

1. Introduction: The Right to - or not to - Care. - Madonna Harrington Meyer, Pam Herd, and Sonya Michel Part I Gendering Care Work 2. A Historical Perspective on Care. - Emily Abel 3. The History of Men's Caring: Evaluating Precedents for Fathers' Family Involvement. - Scott Coltrane and Justin Galt 4. Claiming the Right to Care. - Sonya Michel The Impact of Social Activism on Gender Identity and Care Work: Women's Activism in the Toxic Waste Movement. - Ann Herda-Rapp Part II Public Markets/Private Caring 6. Cash in Care. - Clare Ungerson 7. Care as We Give it, Work as We Know it - Deborah A. Stone 8. The Conflicts of Caring: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Individualism in Family Day Care Work. - Mary Tuominen 9. Paid Emotional Care: Organizing Forms that Encourage Nurturance. - Francesca Cancian 10. The International Division of Caring and Cleaning Work: Transnational Connections or Apartheid Exclusions? - Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo Part III Welfare States: Unstable Supports? 11. Examining Care at Welfare's End. - Stacey Oliker 12. Paying for Care: Child Support Policy in the United States - Demie Kurz 13. Filling in the Gaps in Long Term Care Insurance: Policy Implications for Informal Care Providers. - Jennifer Mellor 14. Shifting the Burden Back to Families? How Medicaid Cost-Containment Reshapes Access to Long Term Care in the U.S. - Madonna Harrington Meyer Part IV Organizing and Reorganizing Care Work 15. Marketization and the Struggling Logics of (Home) Care in The Netherlands. - Trudie Knijn 16. Disability Reform and Women's Caring Work. - Rannveig Traustadottir 17. Making a Way Outta No Way: Grandparenting Cocaine Exposed Grandchildren. - Assata Zerai 18. Hope for the Children: Creating a Community of Care for Foster Children. - Brenda Krause Eheart and Martha Bowman Power