Politicising and Gendering Care for Older People: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from Europe

This book provides a critical framework for understanding the politicisation and gendering of care for older people in various European contexts, examining how it becomes a political struggle and public policy issue. It brings together multidisciplinary contributions that explore care needs, long-term care policies, home care services, institutional services, and family care, revealing the diversity of situations in which these processes overlap, contradict, or reinforce each other, leading to increased gender (in)equalities. An electronic edition of the book is freely available under a Creative Commons licence.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 25 June 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press

This book presents a novel critical framework for comprehending the processes of politicizing and gendering care for older individuals and their manifestations in various European contexts. It delves into the variations in care for older adults across time and space, seeking a profound understanding of how it becomes a site of political conflict and the focus of public policy in diverse countries and at different societal and political levels. It brings together multidisciplinary contributions that examine care for older people as a political concern from various perspectives, including problematizing care needs, long-term care policies, home care services, institutional services, and family care. The contributions reveal the intricate interplay between the processes of politicizing and gendering care for older adults, where they overlap, contradict, or reinforce each other, leading to heightened gender (in)equalities at various levels. Additionally, an electronic edition of this book is available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence, ensuring widespread access and dissemination of its insights.

Weight: 548g
Dimension: 163 x 242 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526175991