Publications

Publication details [#27006]

Paoletti, Isabella. 2002. Caring for older people: A gendered practice. Discourse & Society 13 (6) : 805–817.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | ethnomethodology | feminism | gender | old age

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This analysis of interviews with caregivers of older disabled relatives indicates that caring is significantly related to kin relationships and to gender.