Getting There: Mapping the Gendered Geography of Caregiving to Elderly Relatives

Hallman, Bonnie C.; Joseph, Alun E.

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“…separates the provision of financial help from social support and personal care. Research in north America and Europe on relationships and contacts between parents and children shows a strong but non-linear relationship with the separation distance, and usually co-variation with income and socio-economic status (Greenwell and Bengtson 1997 ;Grundy and Shelton 2001;Hallman and Joseph 1999;Roberto, Allen and Blieszner 2001). Over the shortest distances (say up to 5 km), small increments of the separation distance associate with marked declines in visiting frequency and the ability to provide the more intensive forms of personal care, but at longer distances only a modest distance influence is found.…”

Section: A Typology Of Older Migrants Capacities To Support Othersmentioning

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The diversity and welfare of older migrants in Europe

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This paper sets the scene and provides a conceptual framework for the articles in this special issue. They present the findings of research on European residents who have reached or are on the threshold of old age and whose current circumstances have been strongly influenced by a migration across an international border. Such ‘older migrants’ are scattered throughout Europe and they have especially diverse characteristics. They include some of the most deprived and socially excluded, and some of the most affluent and accomplished, but all to a greater or lesser extent are disadvantaged through an interaction between social policies and their ‘otherness’ by living in a foreign country. Some claim attention through the severity of their unmet health and welfare needs and poor capacity to access advice and treatment, while the affluent groups are of great interest to social gerontology because of their enterprising, developmental and positive approaches to old age. They include among the most innovative of the latest generation of older people, who pursue new combinations of family responsibilities, leisure pursuits and income generation. The paper proposes that the concept ‘human capital’ summarises variations in preparedness for old age, that is, the resources by which people cope with demands for income, roles, treatment, care and support. A typology of the ‘welfare position’ of international migrants in contemporary Europe is presented.

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Section: A Typology Of Older Migrants Capacities To Support Othersmentioning

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The diversity and welfare of older migrants in Europe

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“…Only men who lived within a two-hour drive of the older parent's residence were recruited to diminish the potential problem that greater distance might cause for providing care. The two-hour-drive criterion was derived from the work of geographers Bonnie Hallman and Alun Joseph (1999). They specifically identify a travel distance of greater than two hours as likely to create a barrier to caregiving because it might necessitate extended time away from paid work and/or other family commitments.…”

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The Incomplete Revolution

Campbell

Carroll

2007

Men and Masculinities

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In a 1985 article, Judith Stacey and Barrie Thorne argued that the tendency to treat "gender" as an unproblematized dichotomous variable functioned to contain feminist influence in sociology. Although there has clearly been a revolution in gender studies since that time, there are still whole areas of sociological investigation where this revolution is at best incomplete. One such area involves the literature on the care that adult children provide to aging parents. Using arguments relating to gender-as-performance and hegemonic masculinity, the authors investigate conceptualizations of gender and masculinity in a sample of fifty-eight adult sons who provide care to an aging parent. What emerges from the interviews with these male caregivers is a vision of masculinity that is in some ways quite different from the hegemonic ideal. And yet, like earlier investigators who have studied hegemonic masculinity, the authors also find that the existence of a nonhegemonic vision of masculinity does not threaten the hegemonic ideal.In a well-known article written two decades ago, Judith Stacy and Barrie Thorne (1985) talked of "the missing feminist revolution in sociology." By this, they did not mean that feminism had had no influence on sociology. On the contrary, they took note of the fact that sociologists were paying more attention to women's experiences, that feminists had helped to correct androcentric bias in many areas of sociological investigation, and that sociologists were now more sensitive to the different experiences of men and women in society. Even so, they argued, sociology was missing out on a feminist revolution that had already reshaped basic conceptual frameworks in

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“…For many families the presence of women in the workplace is an economic necessity, making the dualearner family a norm (McFarlane et al 2000). The gendered nature of society is the result of gendered power relations, and these are also the cause of the gendered household division of labour, which tends to place the burden of caregiving and household chores on families and women in particular (Hallman and Joseph 1999).…”

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The influence of the ‘spaces of everyday life’ on pregnancy health

Lindsay¹

2004

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Given the recent focus of medical geography on the social influences of health and illness, this paper draws upon a socio-theoretical framework to show the link between pregnancy health and the spaces of everyday life. The health of pregnant women is becoming increasingly important given that 85 percent of women work during their pregnancy. Employment during pregnancy is consistently linked with good health for infants; however, large discrepancies exist on the effects for employed mothers. This study estimates the health effect of women's employment during pregnancy with data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. Findings show that women's involvement in paid employment has a beneficial impact for infants compared to women not involved in paid labour. Women who work one job or more per week experience more health problems than women who work less than one job per week. Finally, women who work in male-dominated and gender-neutral workspaces experience significantly more prenatal problems than women in female-dominated workspaces. In conclusion, there is evidence to support that differences in employment status, number of workplaces involved in and gendered workspaces influence the experience of health and illness that are negotiated in the spaces of everyday life.

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Getting There: Mapping the Gendered Geography of Caregiving to Elderly Relatives

Cited by 17 publications

References 22 publications

The diversity and welfare of older migrants in Europe

The diversity and welfare of older migrants in Europe

The Incomplete Revolution

The influence of the ‘spaces of everyday life’ on pregnancy health

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