Labour and love: Competing constructions of 'care' in a Czech nursing home

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 203-222

  Read, Rosie ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Care; Emotions; Gender; Kinship; Modernity; Post socialism; Private; Public; Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249710370     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: 14603721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X07076798     Document Type: Conference Paper

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