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040			_aAFVC
100			_aFernandes, Christina _913830
245			_aInvisible care : _ba urgent call for gendered recognition of grandmother care _cChristina Fernandes, Rebecca J. Moran, Phillipa Howard and Barbara Blundell
260			_bSage, _c2025
500			_aAffilia, 2025, First published online, 13 March 2025
520			_aThe normalisation and consequent invisibility of women's care work is well-studied and interrogated critically. However, a subset of women (older women in particular), have been left out of this critical engagement, and rendered even more invisible in an arrangement that benefits the state, society and the community. Custodial grandmothers, as kin carers, take on the responsibility of care for their grandchildren for a range of reasons and varied lengths of time, with or without the involvement of the state. In this article, we reflect on the various explorations and constructions of grandmother carers in the grandparent carer literature and argue for more purposeful and consistent engagement with the gendered nature of custodial grandmothering that advocates for appropriate recognition of this care. We acknowledge our complicity in not adequately addressing the topic of gender in our previous research and reflect on the implications of this neglect on a vulnerable population group. We argue that the gendered normalisation of care as women's work is inadvertently reflected and reinforced in much of the literature on custodial grandparenting. The absence of an intersectional gendered analysis of grandmothers’ caregiving happens through, and as a result of, the ubiquitous taken-for-granted care work performed by women in general and a focus on the grandchild's well-being. We propose that without purposeful feminist engagement with this intersectional disadvantage, injustices experienced by this group will continue to grow and amplify. (Authors' abstract). Record #9185
650			_aCAREGIVERS _999
650			_aCHILD WELFARE _9124
650			_aCHILDREN _9127
650		4	_9276 _aGRANDPARENTS
650			_aKAUMĀTUA _95537
650		4	_9335 _aKINSHIP CARE
650			_aKUIA _95621
650			_aOLDER WOMEN _96157
650			_aSOCIAL SERVICES _9555
650			_aTAIOHI _9595
650			_aTAMARIKI _9597
650			_aSOCIAL WORK PRACTICE _9562
650			_aTOKO I TE ORA _95247
650			_aWĀHINE _94040
650			_aWOMEN _9645
651			_aINTERNATIONAL _93624
651			_aAUSTRALIA _92597
651			_aWESTERN AUSTRALIA _93496
700			_aMoran, Rebecca J. _913831
700			_aHoward, Phillipa _913832
700			_aBlundell, Barbara _913833
773	0		_tAffilia, 2025, First published online, 13 March 2025
830			_aAffilia _94758
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/08861099251319288 _zdoi: 10.1177/08861099251319288 (Open access)
942			_2ddc _cARTICLE _hnews133