Taking ‘Women's Work’ ‘Like a Man’: Husbands' Experiences of Care Work.

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 e...

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Published in:	Gerontologist Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 516 - 528
Main Authors:	Calasanti, Toni, King, Neal
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / UK August 2007
Subjects:	Marital relations Care of Alzheimer's patients Psychology of caregivers Masculinity Married women Diseases
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost