Lesbians giving and receiving care: stretching conceptualizations of caring and community |
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Aronson, J.
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1/1/98
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Journal
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Women -s-Studies-International-Forum
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21(5): 505-519
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Gender Issues
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| Abstract |
In western social welfare jurisdictions, repsponsibility or the care of peole who are disabled or frail is typically
pressed out of the public domain to the private domain of families and, within them, to women. Feminist
critiques of this social division and privatizing of care have seldom addressed the possibilities of care giving and
receiving ani nonfamilial contexts. A study of lesbians caring for and being cared for by other lesbians in the
context of partnerships, friendships, and community networks explores these more spacious and relatively
unremarked possibilities. Conceptually, a focus on lesbian experience provides a fruitful point of entry for
thinking about alternative ways of building supportive social ties, thus contributing to the wider feminist vision
of a public culture of care in which the legitimacy of needs for assistance and the value of care and regarded as
important matters for collective concern and response.
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