How to organize domestic care for relatives living with a disability and elderly family members is a major challenge for individual households, as it is for all European societies. Taking up current debates on the future of family care work, this special issue offers historical perspectives on family care for people with disabilities. It investigates the relationship between disability welfare and family dynamics in modern European history. By bringing together case studies from the 19th and 20th centuries and from Eastern and Western European states, the special issue offers a panorama of regional processes of negotiating intrafamilial gender roles, relationships between private care and public welfare, and discourses on disabilities.

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导言：现代欧洲史中的残疾与家庭照顾


如何为残疾亲属和年迈的家庭成员安排家庭护理，是各个家庭面临的重大挑战，就像所有欧洲社会一样。本期特刊探讨了当前关于家庭护理工作未来的辩论，提供了残疾人家庭护理的历史观点。它研究了现代欧洲历史上残疾福利和家庭动态之间的关系。通过汇集 19 世纪和 20 世纪以及东欧和西欧国家的案例研究，本期特刊提供了家庭内部性别角色谈判、私人护理与公共福利之间关系以及残疾论述的区域进程的全景。