ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author aims to give a brief description of the field of 'research on care' in Scandinavia and then of how this research field in Scandinavia and Britain has developed since the 1970s. She presents the international theoretical discourse on gender and care and presents some thoughts from the emerging field, feminist ethics of care. The author argues that some of the experiences from development of this research field in Scandinavia are relevant to most researchers who want to carry out social research that matters with respect to policies and practices in the field of care and survival. New definitions and distinctions in the field of care were gradually created; definitions that were intended to give clarification in the debate on welfare policy and thereby were believed to have an influence on welfare policy. The political-sociological and empirically rooted research on care has had a strong position in Scandinavian feminist research.
