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| Baby-boomers and the 'denaturalisation' of care-giving in Quebec | | Author(s) | Nancy Guberman, Jean-Pierre Lavoie, Ignace Olazabal |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 31, part 7, October 2011 |
| Pages | pp 1141-1158 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | 50-59 age group ; 60-64 age group ; Older women ; Women as carers ; Attitude ; Self esteem ; Canada. |
| Annotation | This study aimed to understand how modern post-war families interact with old, ill, or disabled family members. Participants included 40 baby-boomer female carers from Montreal, Canada, who were interviewed to discuss their identification with their social generation, their relationship to care-giving, their values regarding care-giving, and the reality of the care-giving they offer. Findings revealed that women no longer identified themselves mainly in terms of family. For most, care-giving was not their only dominant identity - they actively tried to maintain multiple identities, such as worker, wife, mother, friend and social activist, as well as carer. They were also participating in the process of individualisation, leading to the `denaturalisation' of caring. Also, the women called themselves `care-givers' and not simply wives, daughters or mothers, denoting that the work of care-giving no longer falls within the realm of `normal' family responsibilities. The authors concluded that these carers had set limits to their caring commitments, while still adhering to norms of family responsibility for care-giving. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-111031005 A |
| Classmark | BBB: BBC: BD: P6:SH: DP: DPA: 7S |
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