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Families, Work, and Care

How do daughters interpret care as a public issue? Exploring identity, emotion and discourse in the narratives of activist-inclined carers of older parents

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Pages 455-470 | Received 07 Jan 2019, Accepted 09 Oct 2019, Published online: 13 Nov 2019

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