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Author Evans, Patricia

Title Women and the Canadian Welfare State : Challenges and Change
Edition 2nd ed
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (342 pages)
Contents Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- TABLES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Part I: Welfare State in Transition -- 1 The Shifting Terrain of Women's Welfare: Theory, Discourse, and Activism -- 2 From the Welfare State to Vampire Capitalism -- Part II: Challenging the Bases of Claims -- 3 Creation Stories: Social Rights and Canada's Constitution -- 4 Divided Citizenship? Gender, Income Security, and the Welfare State -- 5 Family Law and Social Assistance Programs: Rethinking Equality -- 6 Migration Policy, Female Dependency, and Family Membership: Canada and Germany -- 7 The Shift to the Market: Gender and Housing Disadvantage -- Part III: Women's Work and the State -- 8 Double, Double, Toil and Trouble ... Women's Experience of Work and Family in Canada 1980-1995 -- 9 Towards a Woman-Friendly Long-Term Care Policy -- 10 The State and Pay Equity: Juggling Similarity and Difference, Meaning, and Structures -- Part IV: Women Challenging the Welfare State -- 11 Challenging Diversity: Black Women and Social Welfare -- 12 Women, Unions, and the State: Challenges Ahead -- 13 Institutionalizing Feminist Politics: Learning from the Struggles for Equal Pay in Ontario
Summary Explains not only how women are affected by changes in policy and programming, but how they can take an active role in shaping these changes
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Subject Women -- Government policy -- Canada
Public welfare -- Canada
Public welfare
Women -- Government policy
Canada
Form Electronic book
Author Wekerle, Gerda
Wekerle, Gerda R
ISBN 9781442683549
1442683546