This issue of Gender & Society offers in-depth analyses of carework in a wide variety of
circumstances and locations around the globe: Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil …

Seeking to support qualitative researchers in the artful development of feminist care
scholarship, our goal here is to 'look back'on how we have conceptualized the problems of …

The concept of care is now widely referenced in social science research and teaching, as
well as in policy documents emanating from a variety of national, regional, and global …

What exactly keeps women'in'inequitable care relationships, and how do we get'out'? This
dissertation offers a timely response to a pressing societal problem-that of how to …

This article addresses two puzzles that are at the heart of the field of gender divisions of
domestic labour. How is it that care concepts seldom appear in a field that is focused on …

268 group of women. At the same time, as I wish to show in this chapter, the globalization of
service work, ie the demand for migrant domestic workers, also speaks of women's …

The social construction of motherhood informs and permeates the field of social work
through practice, research, and education, yet mothering experiences are often silenced in …

For all the attention paid to wage labor and the market, it is only in recent decades that
scholars have begun to focus on care, the work that we do to nurture and support each other …

Caregiving remains women's work far more than men's. Although women and men often
attribute this difference to “nature,” this paper argues for the importance of structure …

Over the last decade, a significant body of feminist research has developed which has home-
based reproduction as its focus. Strategically placed at the interface of sociology and social …