| Description |
[vii], 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Introduction / Sophie Watson -- 1. The changing worlds of work and families / Hilary Land -- 2. Sex, gender and health: a new approach / Lesley Doyal -- 3. City A/genders / Sophie Watson -- 4. 'She's there for me': caring in a rural community / Imogen Taylor -- 5. Child protection policy and practice: women in the front line / Elaine Farmer and Margaret Boushel -- 6. The criminalization of female poverty / Christina Pantazis -- 7. Domestic violence policy in the 1990s / Gill Hague -- 8. Fatherhood, children and violence: placing the UK in an international context / Marianne Hester and Lynne Harne -- 9. Mainstreaming equality / Teresa Rees -- 10. 'Dangerous and different': reconstructions of madness in the 1990s and the role of mental health policy / Sarah Payne |
| Summary |
Articles in the collection draw on a diversity of theoretical and methodological perspectives engaging with issues that have vexed feminist analysts and activists over more than two decades. The collection explores how social policy constructs gendered relations, the difference/equality debate, representations and discourses of gender in social policy, the tensions and issues associated with restructuring domestic relations, and feminist alternatives to mainstream social policy solutions. The book adopts a comparative and international perspective taking on board the importance of global changes as well as illustrating its argument with practices and research from a number of countries |
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Engendering Social Policy brings new and fresh perspectives to the question of how social policy constructs gendered social relations. With the restructuring of welfare firmly back on the political agenda, in the context of a reassertion that traditional families are the backbone of society, this book raises important issues for students, academics and practitioners grappling with social policy issues at the end of the millennium |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Sex discrimination against women -- Great Britain.
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Sex discrimination.
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Social policy.
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Sex role.
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Welfare state -- History.
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Welfare state.
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Women's rights.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Social policy -- 1979-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001103
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| Author |
Doyal, Lesley.
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Watson, Sophie.
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| LC no. |
98017036 |
| ISBN |
033520113X (paperback) |
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0335201148 |
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