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Author Jappinen, Maija

Title Gazing at Welfare, Gender and Agency in Post-socialist Countries
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011

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Description 1 online resource (356 pages)
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; PART I; CHAPTER TWO; PART II; CHAPTER THREE; PART III; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; PART IV; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; PART V; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS
Summary The volume presents a new and unique view of welfare in Russia and Eastern European countries from an intersectional perspective of welfare, gender and agency. Since the collapse of socialism, the welfare structures of the post-socialist states have experienced large and rapid changes. The discussions on the reforming welfare models serve as the integrating theme for the volume. The authors discuss past and current developments and make comparisons in time and space-between the early 1990s a ..
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Subject Public welfare -- Russia (Federation)
Public welfare -- Europe, Eastern
Welfare state -- Russia (Federation)
Welfare state -- Europe, Eastern
Women -- Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions
Women -- Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions
Post-communism -- Russia (Federation)
Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Post-communism
Public welfare
Social conditions
Welfare state
Women -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95003621
Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94005642
Subject Eastern Europe
Russia (Federation)
Form Electronic book
Author Kulmala, Meri
Saarinen, Aino
ISBN 9781443826136
1443826138
1443825816
9781443825818
1283141868
9781283141864
9786613141866
6613141860