Doing gender and age: The case of informal elderly care in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378025%3A_____%2F18%3A00491314" target="_blank" >RIV/68378025:_____/18:00491314 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.17325" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.17325</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.17325" target="_blank" >10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.17325</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Doing gender and age: The case of informal elderly care in the Czech Republic

Original language description

This article seeks to describe and explain some of the factors behind the prevalence of women in informal care for seniors. It presents a qualitative study of women who are caring for a frail elderly parent in the Czech Republic. Care is seen as a space where gender and other intersecting identities are performed and this has specific subjective, structural and material consequences. The author draws on biographical interviews with women caregivers and shows how they “do gender and age” in their narratives of how and why they made the decision to provide care and how they actually provide care. The author identifies situations and circumstances in which gender categories and gender relations shift and are destabilised by changes in society. The Czech Republic is a country with a history of state socialism and with traditionally large numbers of women in the workforce, but it also has a highly traditional gender culture.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-07898S" target="_blank" >GA15-07898S: Configuration of elderly care in the CR: love, labour, and money</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Ageing and Later Life

ISSN

1652-8670

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

SE - SWEDEN

Number of pages

33

Pages from-to

41-73

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85058110589