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Caring and nurturing in the lives of women married to alcoholics

Zajdow, Grazyna 1995, Caring and nurturing in the lives of women married to alcoholics, Women's studies international forum, vol. 18, no. 5-6, pp. 533-546.

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Title Caring and nurturing in the lives of women married to alcoholics
Author(s) Zajdow, Grazyna
Journal name Women's studies international forum
Volume number 18
Issue number 5-6
Start page 533
End page 546
Publisher Elsevier Science
Place of publication Oxford, England
Publication date 1995-09
ISSN 0277-5395
0148-0685
Summary Caring and nurturing are constants in all women's lives, and spouses of alcoholic men are no exceptions. In this article caring is treated as both an emotion and as labour and, therefore, builds on the growing body of work in this area. This article demonstrates that caring work in the lives of women in alcoholic relationships is at the extreme end of a contiuum in which all women are involved, not an abberation as has often been suggested. The women who are interviewed here live lives which are an extension from the good wife in all marriages to the good wife in an alcoholic marriage. It is only by hearing the stories that the link between the women in extreme relationships and women in conventional ones can be made.
Language eng
Field of Research 160899 Sociology not elsewhere classified
Socio Economic Objective 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society
HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©1995, Elsevier Science Ltd.
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30030656

Document type: Journal Article
Collections: School of History, Heritage and Society
School of Social Inquiry
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