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Taking ‘Women's Work’ ‘Like a Man’: Husbands' Experiences of Care Work

Author(s) -

Toni Calasanti,

Neal King

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

the gerontologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524

H-Index - 138

eISSN - 1758-5341

pISSN - 0016-9013

DOI - 10.1093/geront/47.4.516

Subject(s) - situational ethics , feeling , psychology , social psychology , psychological intervention , coping (psychology) , qualitative research , care work , work (physics) , sociology , clinical psychology , social science , mechanical engineering , psychiatry , engineering

We adopted a feminist, structural approach to husbands' experiences of caring for wives with Alzheimer's disease. This framework posited that men and women draw upon gender repertoires-situational ideals of behavior based upon their respective structural locations-that create gendered experiences of stress and coping strategies.

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