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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
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 |
|