Caring and social justice / Marian Barnes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnes, Marian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caring.

Caregivers.

Social policy.

Social justice.

Physical Description:

xiii, 198 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Summary:

Care-giving has become a high profile issue for both policy and practice in social care. Caring is often conceived negatively: as a burden to carers or a form of oppression for disabled people. Caring and Social Justice offers an alternative perspective, revealing a positive approach to care. It draws on narrative life history interviews to focus on the relationship between lay care, social cohesion and social justice.

The book starts by clearly reviewing the main literature on caring and the ways in which it has been described and conceptualised. Using 12 carers' stories, the author locates care-giving in the context of both the private and the public spheres. One of the strengths of the book lies in the author's careful exposition of an 'ethic of care' and its value for both the analysis and development of practice. The book also addresses its importance in understanding the relevance of care to broader social policies capable of delivering social justice.

Undergraduate and postgraduate students of social science and health and welfare courses will find this an invaluable resource, offering a refreshing approach to care-giving and its relationship to social justice.

Contents:

1 Perspectives on Care and Care-Giving 1

2 Telling Stories of Care-Giving: An Introduction to a Biographical Approach to Understanding Caring 19

3 'Just a Mother'? Parenthood and Care-Giving with Disabled Children 37

4 Sons and Daughters 63

5 Partners: 'In Sickness and in Health' 87

6 Carers' Perspectives on Care-Giving 107

7 Carers and the Carers' Movement 126

8 Achieving Social Justice Through Care 142

9 Caring Practices: Ethics and Narratives 159.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-187) and index.

ISBN:

140392161X

1403921628

OCLC:

61879817