A Visual Definition of Caregiving: Caring About, Caring For, and the Feminization of Care
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Academic Unit
College of Arts and Sciences
Publication Date
2023
Document Type
Book Chapter
Abstract
Over the past decade, stories about financial, physical, and interpersonal strains facing unpaid family caregivers have steadily increased (Eisenstadt 2014; McSweeney-Feld 2013; Rieder 2012; Tunajeck 2010). Such narratives are becoming more common as the caregiver to care receiver ratio grows increasingly lopsided (McSweeney-Feld 2013). Pro-caregiving advocates championing policy changes for unpaid caregivers have progressively begun to use the term “caregiving crisis” to describe negative conditions impacting individuals who care for others, including, but not limited to chronic illness and financial strain. Of observable concern, is that the primary role of caregiving tends to fall on women who are implicated in a complex history of caregiving rhetoric that centers on motherhood and lack of agency. This complex history has been further exacerbated by the 2020 Covid pandemic, which has disproportionately impacted women in general (Olen 2021; Fox, 2021; Gogoi 2020), and mothers in particular (Grose, 2021; Gross 2021; Leonhardt 2020).
ISBN
9781003311799
Publisher
Routledge
City
New York, NY
Beginning Page Number
177
Last Page Number
189
DOI
DOI: 10.4324/9781003311799-17
Recommended Citation
Davidson, Rachel D. and Stache, Lara Ph.D, "A Visual Definition of Caregiving: Caring About, Caring For, and the Feminization of Care" (2023). Faculty Authors and Creators Reception. 115.
https://opus.govst.edu/fac/115
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