Title States, markets, families : gender, liberalism and social policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States / Julia S. O'Connor, Ann Shola Orloff and Sheila Shaver

Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999 Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999

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Description ix, 281 pages ; 24 cm Contents 1. Gendering Theories and Comparisons of Welfare States -- 2. Liberalism, Gender and Social Policy -- 3. The Labour Market and Social Policy -- 4. Social Rights Versus Gender Stratification and Gender Power? -- 5. Body Rights, Social Rights and Reproductive Choice -- 6. Liberalism, Gendered Policy Logics and Mobilisation -- 7. States, Markets, Families Summary This important book examines the impact of changes in social policy regimes on gender roles and relations. Structured thematically and systematically comparative, it analyses three key policy areas: labour markets, income maintenance, and reproductive rights. Largely driven by issues of equality, it considers the role of the state as a site for gender and sexual politics at a time when primacy is given to the market, developing an argument about social citizenship in the process Analysis Abortion Australia overseas comparisons Employment participation rates Families Family Income maintenance Liberalism Sex role Social citizenship Social policy Welfare measures Welfare state Working conditions Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography Notes English SUBJECT Commentary (C.D. Howe Institute). Social policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009184526 Subject Family policy -- Australia. Family policy -- Canada. Family policy -- Great Britain. Family policy -- United States. Sex role -- Australia. Family policy. Sex role -- Canada. Liberalism. Sex role -- Great Britain. Public welfare. Sex role -- United States. Sex role. Social planning. Social policy -- Government policy. Social policy. Women -- Government policy. Women. SUBJECT Australia -- Social policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100478 Canada -- Social policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114563 Great Britain -- Social policy -- 1979- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001103 United States -- Social policy -- 1993- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006374 Author Orloff, Ann Shola. Shaver, Sheila. LC no. 98025258 ISBN 0521630924 052163881X (paperback)

ABBREV TI States, Markets, Families

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