Observing Women Caregivers’ Everyday Experiences: New Ways of Understanding and Intervening

Silverman, Marjorie

doi:10.1080/01634372.2014.939384

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“…Though women explain caregiving as positive, it does not seem to be something that is taken into account in research on caregiving to elderly parents (e.g. Mendez-Luck et al 2008, Eriksson et al 2013, Silverman 2015) and men's expressions of positive experience are instead perhaps given an exaggerated importance. Studies included in "The key idea of gender and gender differences" seem to assume that women's experience of caregiving is colored by women's obligation to care, while men's caregiving is seen as voluntary.…”

Section: Juxtaposing Findings In Relation To Four Key Ideasmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Fromme et al 2005;Hash 2006;Bookwala 2009;Sugiura et al 2009;Dunér 2010;Lin et al 2012;Lüdecke et al 2012;Hosseinpoor et al 2013;Friedemann and Buckwalter 2014) but there are some studies that focus only on women (e.g. Mendez-Luck et al 2008, Silverman 2015. I will start with studies that focus on both women and men, and then studies that focus only on women as caregivers.…”

Section: Literature Based On Empiricalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, even if women say that everything is fine it seems that they cannot be trusted because their body language shows something else (cf. Silverman 2015).…”

Section: A Gendered Lens On the Common Denominators Of Research On Camentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Mendez-Luck et al (2008) also found that some women perceived burden as a positive sacrifice; however, they argue that this may have reflected how the participants made meaning of an obligatory role, as daughters or wives, to provide care. In a Canadian study using videography data, Silverman (2015) 60 aims to explore how observing women's caregiving and their non-verbal expressions and gestures could encourage new accounts of caregiving. Silverman (2015) argues that this videographic observation might allow practitioners to witness how caregivers accomplish their role on a daily basis.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In a Canadian study using videography data, Silverman (2015) 60 aims to explore how observing women's caregiving and their non-verbal expressions and gestures could encourage new accounts of caregiving. Silverman (2015) argues that this videographic observation might allow practitioners to witness how caregivers accomplish their role on a daily basis. Observing caregivers can provide clues to how caregivers experience the situation.…”

Section: Literature Based On Empiricalmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Men do care! : A gender-aware and masculinity-informed contribution to caregiving scholarship

Wallroth

2016

Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences

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In caregiving literature, it is often the female gender that has been the focus of attention, and in particular women's unpaid labor. Studies also tend to make comparisons between men's and women's caregiving, using men's caregiving experiences to show not only that women face greater burdens, but also that men's needs can be disregarded. This means that while gender analyses are not uncommon in the caregiving literature, gender tends to be equated with womanhood. The research problem that this dissertation addresses is therefore the gender bias that characterizes caregiving scholarship at present and the fact that this bias is impeding us from moving the debates on care and caregiving forward. The aim of the dissertation is twofold. Firstly, it attempts to contribute to the rectification of the gender bias in question by focusing on men's caregiving and answering the following research questions: What motivates men to provide care for their elderly parents? How do adult sons experience caregiving? What do adult sons think that care and caregiving are, i.e. what are their perspectives on care? Secondly, this dissertation also aims to explore whether a gender-aware and masculinity-informed perspective can be used to enhance our understanding of caregiving. Thus, through a phenomenological analysis of interviews with 19 caregiving adult sons and sons-in-law, this dissertation discusses how motives, experiences and perspectives, which have so far been interpreted as unique to women, are also matters that men talk about and consider important in caregiving. The dissertation argues therefore that much could be gained if we were to rectify the gender bias that characterizes the literature on family caregiving and explore caregiving men in the genderaware and masculinity-informed way that is lacking in this literature at present. Inspired by the debate within studies of masculinity, the dissertation argues that within the debate on care there is a hegemony of care which has so far tended to exclude men's perspectives on caregiving because literature on family caregiving has regarded women as the ideal caregivers. This dissertation shows that a gender-aware and masculinity-informed perspective on care can increase our understanding of family caregiving and contribute to the rectification of the gender bias that care research suffers from. Against this backdrop, it is proposed that caregiving men should not solely be regarded as empirically interesting. This is because they are an unexploited and theoretically profuse source of information about caregiving.

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Section: Juxtaposing Findings In Relation To Four Key Ideasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Based On Empiricalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, even if women say that everything is fine it seems that they cannot be trusted because their body language shows something else (cf. Silverman 2015).…”

Section: A Gendered Lens On the Common Denominators Of Research On Camentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Based On Empiricalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Based On Empiricalmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Men do care! : A gender-aware and masculinity-informed contribution to caregiving scholarship

Wallroth

2016

Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences

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Online Research with Informal Caregivers: Opportunities and Challenges

Horrell

Stephens

Breheny

2015

Qualitative Research in Psychology

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In this article we discuss the opportunities and challenges of using the Internet as part of an emergent methodology in qualitative research. Utilising a deliberative process of democratic enquiry, an online forum was used to identify important capabilities for the health of informal caregivers for older people in New Zealand. Recognising the difficulties associated with recruiting and interviewing informal caregivers, the study was advertised and conducted via the Internet. Over four months, 60 informal caregivers, from varied backgrounds, contributed to an online forum created specifically for the research. The asynchronous, anonymous format facilitated participants' personal accounts of caregiving, which highlighted the tensions and complexity of caregivers' lives. This resulted in a key finding that emotions, particularly attachment, play a significant role in the day-to-day experience of informal eldercare provision. Overall, we found that Internet-mediated research offers an innovative option for qualitative data collection, which has potential for including hard-to-reach populations and enabling insightful, contextual data collection.

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Filming in the home: A reflexive account of microethnographic data collection with family caregivers of older adults

Silverman

2015

Qualitative Social Work

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This article explores the impact of the researcher's reflexivity on the data collection and analysis process in the context of a videographic study of home-based family caregivers of older adults. Going beyond a discussion of the role of the researcher's subjectivity, the article builds on current literature by exploring how the researcher's embodied selfreflexivity can be used to enrich video based research. The article addresses the researcher's personal social location and shifting roles throughout the study and how these impacted on her work with the camera, her moment to moment ethical decisions and her perceptions of the participants' realities. The author illustrates, through the use of journal and transcript excerpts, how the dynamic relationship between the researcher, the participants and the camera creates overlapping and complementary layers of information that together form a cohesive portrait of the action. Throughout, the article discusses the contribution of reflexivity to both the creation and resolution of ethical tensions in the research space. Downloaded from decisions and presence during the filming were central to the creation of the research space and the findings that emerged from the project. Although video data collection and the analysis of social interactions in natural settings have become increasingly popular in the social sciences (Knoblauch and Schnettler, 2012), there is a lack of literature discussing the lived experience of conducting videographic research (Luff and Heath, 2012). This article aims to fill that gap by discussing my experiences during videographic data collection in the context of a specific project, as well as how these experiences shaped, and were in turn shaped by, a myriad of subjective and relational factors. The primary focus of the article is on the interactions between the camera, the researcher and the participants, as well as the ethical tensions to which these interactions gave rise and the impacts on the knowledge creation process.

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Observing Women Caregivers’ Everyday Experiences: New Ways of Understanding and Intervening

Cited by 4 publications

References 37 publications

Men do care! : A gender-aware and masculinity-informed contribution to caregiving scholarship

Men do care! : A gender-aware and masculinity-informed contribution to caregiving scholarship

Online Research with Informal Caregivers: Opportunities and Challenges

Filming in the home: A reflexive account of microethnographic data collection with family caregivers of older adults

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