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

개인저자
Calasanti, Toni ;, King, Neal
수록페이지
516-527 p.
발행일자
2007.08.13
출판사
The Gerontological Society of America
초록
[영문]Purpose: 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. Design and Methods: We used a qualitative, constructivist approach to analyze in-depth interviews with 22 spousal caregivers and observations within support groups. Our analysis focused on the nine husbands, the strategies these men reported using to deal with problems that arose in their care work, and the extent to which these are congruent with the masculinities of White men in the United States. Results: We found that these husbands' approaches to caregiving and their strategies for dealing with the work and feelings involved were rooted in their sense of selves as men. We outline their overall approaches to caregiving, identify six strategies husbands used to deal with problems stemming from care work?exerting force, focusing on tasks, blocking emotions, minimizing disruption, distracting attention, and self-medicating?and tie these to their structural positions as working-, middle-, and professional-class men. Implications: Theories of gender differences in the performance or quality of care work should tie these to structural arrangements. Unless the gendered bases upon which different styles or experiences are removed (i.e., structural inequality), designers of interventions cannot and should not expect to use the experience of one group to inform appropriate strategies for the other