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Towards a critical theory of care. Theories and concepts of care: Revisiting the UNRISD research on the political and social economy of care: Implications for future research and policy; Integrating difference and care into social justice: Towards a normative framework for care, welfare and social cohesion; Care policy as government of life: Three models illustrated with Swiss examples; Care and social cohesion in South Africa: Political engineering versus dealing with social discordance; Feminist ethics of care through a Southern lens. Policy imperatives and care: Parental incapacity and institutional non-responsiveness: The care framework in prenatal and early life services in South Africa; The intersection of gendered subjectivities and child welfare discourses: An examination of the developmental child welfare model and the child protection model; The welfare mix, care and equality: Switzerland in comparative perspective; Private affairs: The welfare state, gender relations, and the Swiss road to neoliberalism; Are men's healthcare needs important?: A critical analysis of South African health policy. Practices and models of care: Developing a model for analysis of home-based care activities using South African data; Gender and care in the non-profit sector in South Africa: Implications for welfare policy; To care and to be cared for: The role of elderly people in the Swiss care regime; Faceless bureaucracy?: The challenges of gender-based violence and practices of care in higher education. Narratives of care: Narratives of gender and practices of care among young men and women in contemporary South Africa; 'I am a male, although I am a little bit soft': Men, gender, and care work in South Africa; Fragile families' experiences of caring for HIV-positive children: Selected cases from the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal; Caregiving in the era of HIV and AIDS: Experiences of a South African HIVpositive woman; Early motherhood, education and childcare: Experiences of social and institutional support among young mothers at school in Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal; Care in context: Prospective perspectives for research, policy development and public deliberation.

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Vasu Reddy is the executive director of the Human and Social Development Program at the Human Sciences Research Council and an honorary professor and research fellow in the school of Social Sciences, college of Humanities at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is the author of From Social Silence to Social Science. Stephen Meyer is associated with the Zentrum Gender Studies at the University of Basel. Tamara Shefer is a professor in the department of women's and gender studies and currently deputy dean of teaching and learning in the arts faculty of the University of the Western Cape. Thenjiwe Meyiwa is the research director in the education and skills development unit of the Human Sciences Research Council and an honorary professor at the Durban University of Technology. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is a United Nations under-secretary-general and the executive director of UN Women. She is the former deputy president of South Africa. Joan Tronto is a professor of political science at the University of Minnesota.

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With its focus on care in Switzerland and South Africa, this book might appear to put an unusual pair side by side. It is refreshing and thought-provoking to have 'the north' and 'the south' compared in this way, and disturbing to see what this demonstrates. Differences aside, both countries are deeply conservative and patriarchal in the realm of family policies; there are serious gaps between social policies and practices; care policies and practices reproduce gender inequalities; the vast majority of carers, in families, in formal and informal economies, and in the volunteer sector, are women; and elderly people are not only care receivers, they also play a significant role in providing care to others. These well-referenced essays from a variety of disciplines constitute a rich resource for the study of care. They set an agenda for the next round of public debate and scholarship on care, both theoretical an empirical. - FRANCIE LUND, School of Built Environment and Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal Care in Context brings together two of the most important themes and challenges of contemporary times: the care challenge, of how to shift the world away from uncaring and 'carelessness' towards care and caring, and the transnational challenge, of how to work between and across nations and locations. Care in Context is an important book, not only in terms of these urgent issues, but moreover as a model for further collaborations between 'the global North' and 'the global South'. I recommend it very warmly indeed. It is above all a contribution to peace and equality. JEFF HEARN, Orebro University, Sweden; Hanken School of Economics, Finland; University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom This compelling collection demystifies the meanings of care and puts the spotlight on its gendered dimensions in two different African and European contexts. The care domain is a critical axis of power, globally, that often misrecognizes women and makes their contributions to society invisible. Yet recognition of the care work performed by many women and some men, whether paid or unpaid, is vital to general wellbeing in the increasingly strained care and welfare regimes worldwide. Further building on the ground-breaking UNRISD study on care and gender, this volume carefully considers theory, models, policies and practices. Care in Context makes an important contribution to the knowledge gateway. It provides thoughtful, fresh and nuanced perspectives that offer a smart engagement with material issues across the South African and Swiss contexts and reanimates some of the emancipatory motives that inspire the ethics of care. RELEBOHILE MOLETSANE, Professor & John Langalibalele Dube Chair in Rural Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal

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