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Record Nr.

UNINA9910252715403321

Autore

Dahl Hanne Marlene

Titolo

Struggles in (elderly) care : a feminist view / / by Hanne Marlene Dahl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

1-137-57761-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (V, 179 p.)

Disciplina

306.461

Soggetti

Social medicine

Feminist anthropology

Social service 

Sociology

Social groups

Family

Medical Sociology

Feminist Anthropology

Social Care

Gender Studies

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. The landscape of elderly care and the proliferation of struggles -- 3. Theorizing elderly care -- 4. Silences that matter -- 5. Regulating care – and struggles about regulation -- 6. Conclusion: A new analytics for (elderly) care.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a critical engagement with the intensified struggles to be found within elderly care provision. Various social and political processes, including the forces of globalisation and the de-gendering of care, have changed how we might understand this national and global political concern. Emerging discourses such as neoliberalism have also reframed elderly care to increase existing tensions at the individual, national, and transnational level. Dahl argues that in order



to grasp these new realities of care we need a new analytical framework that redirects us to new sites of contestation. Dahl approaches these issues from a post-structuralist and radical feminist position, while drawing from feminist sociology, feminist political science, nursing philosophy and feminist history. In particular, Struggles In (Elderly) Care highlights how the predominantly feminist theorization of care has been dominated by a sociological bias that could be improved using insights from political science concerning concepts of power and struggle, and the importance of the state and governance. This book will be of interest to researchers in sociology, gerontology, nursing, and feminist studies.