English
This article examines the concept of care, its genesis and its use in North-American feminist research. Difficulties encountered translating this concept in French demonstrate its complex relation to the French approach of care-related work and home care services. What characterizes North-American feminist appproaches is their double reference to categories of European social coverage systems on the one hand, and to volunteer female work within the family, on the other. We underline both the interest of such approaches and the plurality of gender-equality conceptualizations that they imply.
