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Author Maker, Yvette

Title Care and Support Rights after Neoliberalism Balancing Competing Claims Through Policy and Law
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (330 p.)
Series Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Ser
Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Ser
Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Table -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Challenges and Tensions in Meeting Care and Support Needs -- Incompatible Activities and Competing Constituencies -- Stalled Attempts to Resolve Policy Tensions -- A New Framework for Rights-Based Care and Support Policy -- Care and Support as Matters of Social Citizenship -- Scope: Care, Support and Citizenship in Liberal Welfare States
Exploring and Addressing Care Policy Tensions in Context: Care and Support Rights in Australian and English Policy -- Demonstrating the Application of the Principles in Two Sectors and Two Countries -- Case Study Methodology -- My Position as 'Outsider' -- Structure of the Book -- Part I Care Policy Tensions: Conflicting Claims and Fragmented Solutions -- 1 A Feminist Dilemma: Support Unpaid Care or Support Paid Work? -- 1.1 Introduction: Wollstonecraft's Dilemma and the Care/Work Divide -- 1.2 Advantages and Disadvantages of Support for Women's Unpaid Caring
1.2.1 Advantages: Valuing and Supporting Care -- 1.2.2 Disadvantages: Entrenching Dependence and Precluding Paid Work -- 1.3 Advantages and Disadvantages of Support for Women's Paid Work Participation -- 1.3.1 Advantages: Equal Participation and Economic Independence -- 1.3.2 Disadvantages: Ignoring and Undervaluing Care while Loosening Attachment to Work -- 1.4 Conclusion -- 2 The Universal Caregiver Model: Expanding Options or Imposing New Limits? -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Features of the Universal Caregiver Model
2.3 How Can the Universal Caregiver Model Be Implemented in Care and Support Policy? -- 2.3.1 Policy Proposals from the Literature -- 2.3.2 The Promises and Limits of Existing Policies -- 2.4 Conclusion: Limitations and Theoretical Gaps in Prior Reconciliation Efforts -- 3 Disability Rights and Carers' Advocacy: To Reject or to Recognize Care? -- 3.1 Introduction: Is Care a Burden or Is the Concept the Problem? -- 3.2 Advantages and Disadvantages of the Carer Perspective -- 3.2.1 Advantages: Securing Practical and Political Support for Carers
3.2.2 Disadvantages: Undermining the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities -- 3.3 Advantages and Disadvantages of the Disability Rights Perspective -- 3.3.1 Advantages: Gaining Independence and Control -- 3.3.2 Disadvantages: Disempowered Workers, Limited Choice and Individualization -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4 A Disability Rights-Informed Ethics of Care: Interdependence and Common Humanity -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Power and Problems of 'Interdependence' -- 4.3 Finding Common Ground through Human Rights: Optimism and Hurdles
Summary This book offers an approach to care and support policy prioritizing gender equality, disability human rights and dignity for all
Notes Description based upon print version of record
4.4 How Can These Perspectives Be Implemented in Care and Support Policy?
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781108620727
1108620728