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The body in social policy: mapping a territory
- Author:
- TWIGG Julia
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 31(3), July 2002, pp.421-439.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Explores the relevance of recent theorising around the body in social policy. Argues that the body is strongly present within social policy, in both the subject matter and the debates. Discusses how the literature on the body is relevant to social policy and might bring insights that are of benefit to the subject. Focuses on the areas of: health care, community care, disability no-power consumption, and the cross-cutting themes of age, race, gender and sexuality.
Are women becoming a burden? independence, dependency and community care
- Author:
- ELLIS Kathryn
- Journal article citation:
- Social Services Research, 2, 1995, pp.1-10.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Explores the differing and gendered meanings attached to 'independence' and 'dependency' in the newly decentralised and marketised regimes of community care, and assesses the extent to which older and disabled women are receiving the services and support they require to enable them to lead independent lives.
Mixed blessings? The Invalid Care Allowance and carer's income needs
- Author:
- McLAUGHLIN Eithne
- Journal article citation:
- Benefits, 3, January 1992, pp.8-11.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Reports on a recent study of the Invalid Care Allowance and implications for the issues of women's role in society, and the increasing number of people being involved in the provision or receipt of community care.
Pride against prejudice: a personal politics of disability
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Women's Press
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 205p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Deals with the nature of prejudice against disabled people, and challenges the reality of being different. Covers current and historical debates on the quality of disabled people's lives; the way disability is represented within Western culture; institutionalisation and independence; feminist research and community care; and the politics of the disability movement.
'Us' and 'them'? Feminist research, community care and disability
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 33, Winter 1991, pp.22-39.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Feminist research on community care is concerned with women's position in the family. Such research has failed to take on the reality and the interests of those groups of people who receive 'care'. This had led some feminists to conclude that non-sexist forms of community care are impossible and to advocate new forms of institutional care as an alternative. Disabled people experience such research as oppressive and alienating. Research which incorporated the subjective reality of disabled people would ask different questions but, although rejecting institutional care, would still support feminism's rejection of the way that 'community care' too often means 'family care'.
Gender and community care: social work and social care perspectives
- Author:
- ORME Joan
- Publisher:
- Palgrave
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 276p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Discusses the gender assumptions behind social work practice and community care, and reveals the impact these have on men and women as providers and recipients of care. Outlines feminist theory and relates this to the development of policy and practice in community care. Goes on to explore how assumptions coloured by gender have influenced services to different user groups, such as people with mental health problems, older people, and disabled people. Ends by examining how good practice can be developed in regard to these issues.
Race and gender differences in the distribution of home and Community-based services in Florida
- Authors:
- HAN Lein, BARRILLEAUX Charles, QUADAGNO Jill
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 7(3/4), 1996, pp.93-107.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article examines the distribution of home and community-based services (HCBS) under Florida's Medicaid waiver programme. Controlling for personal and community characteristics, it was found that gender and race significantly affect the access of the disabled adult population to HCBS services, with women and non-whites significantly more likely to be receiving HCBS services.