The care: Beyond domestic work

Abstract

In this paper we construct the concepts of care, provision and service as tools for analysis of social interaction from a gender perspective. We propose to extend these concepts of analysis from household production to any form of social interaction. So we define these concepts by the following categories of analysis: a) the centrality of people’s needs in action; b) the centrality of target achievement of the action; c) the centrality of universal standards in action, d) the centrality of the objects in dispute in the action.