Contributors Preface One: Perspectives on Caring 1. Women's Caring: Work Expanding, State Contracting, Carol T. Baines, Patricia M. Evans, and Sheila M. Neysmith 2. Women's Professions and an Ethic of Care, Carol T. Baines 3. Gender, Poverty, and Women's Caring, Patricia M.

Evans 4. Caring and Women of Colour: Living the Intersecting Oppressions of Race, Class, and Gender, Usha George Two: Living the Realities of Care 5. Still Girls Learn to Care: Girls Policed to Care 6. Dutiful Daughters and Undemanding Mothers: Constraining Images of Giving and Receiving Care in Middle and Later Life 7. Caught in Tangled Webs of Care: Women Abused in Intimate Relationships 8. Contradictions in Child Welfare: Neglect and Responsibility Three: Policy Directions and Caring Expectations 9. The Child-Care Debate: Fading Hopes and Shifting Sands 10. Enter the Filipina Nanny: An Examination of Canada's Live-In Caregiver Policy 11.

From Home Care to Social Care: The Value of a Vision Index Author Index.