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"Community Care Is By Women"
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"Community Care Is By Women" It is a common observation that there are invisible threads that link women with community care. We are so used to conceptualising personal and community care as 'women's work' that we often do not stop to question the invisible threads but act unconsciously in a way so as to reinforce the notion that 'community care is by women'. The word 'community' is a term that is used to describe many situations and its meaning remains broad but elusive. It has been linked to the commons or common people, the people of a district and "the quality of holding something in common' (Williams 1983). Community can convey a sense of direct common concern, of organisation or to describe an existing set of relationships (Bornat et al 1997). Women and community are interconnected in complex and contradictory ways and Fiona Williams (Bornat et al 1997) argues that of central...
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