TY - JOUR
T1 - The micropolitics of elder care in Memento Mori, Diary of a Good Neighbor, and A Taste for Death
AU - England, S. E.
AU - Ganzer, C.
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - Using three novels-Muriel Spark's Memento Mori, Doris Lessing's Diary of a Good Neighbor, and P. D. James' A Taste for Death-we examine themes relating to the social construction of caregiving. In our reading of the stories we found numerous instances of the political in the personal, and of how care can be shaped by inequalities of class and gender, by organizational practices and attitudes rooted in cultural assumptions, and by the social idealization of care provided by relatives and friends.
AB - Using three novels-Muriel Spark's Memento Mori, Doris Lessing's Diary of a Good Neighbor, and P. D. James' A Taste for Death-we examine themes relating to the social construction of caregiving. In our reading of the stories we found numerous instances of the political in the personal, and of how care can be shaped by inequalities of class and gender, by organizational practices and attitudes rooted in cultural assumptions, and by the social idealization of care provided by relatives and friends.
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U2 - 10.2190/76J5-PJT6-71JB-QMVN
DO - 10.2190/76J5-PJT6-71JB-QMVN
M3 - Review article
C2 - 8034397
AN - SCOPUS:0028223244
SN - 0020-7314
VL - 24
SP - 355
EP - 369
JO - International Journal of Health Services
JF - International Journal of Health Services
IS - 2
ER -