| Description |
1 online resource (308 pages) |
| Series |
Oati International Series in Law and Society |
| Contents |
Prelims; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I Historicizing Social Reproduction, Welfare and Neo-liberalism; 1 Women, Social Reproduction and the Neo-Liberal Assault on the US Welfare State; 2 Women, the State and Welfare Law; Part II Women's Agency and Activism in the Welfare State: Comparative and Historical Perspectives; 3 Gender and the Rise of the Welfare State in Fin-de-Sicle New York City; 4 'Mothers at Work'; Part III The Precarious Citizenship and Legal Construction of Poor Women; 5 Women in the Workforce in the Context of Neo-Liberalism |
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6 'Risky Women'7 Intimate Intrusions; 8 Retrenchment not Reform; Part IV Reconceptualizing State Forms and Socio-Legal Policy; 9 Substantive Universality; 10 Women's Work and a Guaranteed Income; Index |
| Summary |
Extensive welfare, law and policy reforms characterised the making and unmaking of Keynesian states in the twentieth century. This collection highlights the gendered nature of these regulatory shifts and, specifically, the roles played by women as reformers, welfare workers and welfare recipients, in the development of welfare states historically. The contributors are leading feminist socio-legal scholars from a range of disciplines in Canada, the United States and Israel. Collectively, their analyses of women, law and poverty speak to long-standing and ongoing feminist concerns: the importanc |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Women -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Poor women -- Legal status, laws, etc
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Public welfare.
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Income maintenance programs.
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Neoliberalism.
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welfare services.
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Income maintenance programs
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Neoliberalism
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Public welfare
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Women -- Social conditions
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Chunn, Dorothy
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| ISBN |
9781847315625 |
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1847315623 |
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