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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Defining child support -- The purpose of child support -- Outline of the book -- 2 Child support and gendered governance practice -- The state's role in governing gender -- Governance and power -- Understanding the process of institutional and administrative failure -- Technologies of gendered governance -- The governance of gender within interaction -- Rendering women's concerns invisible |
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Gaining access to and insights into governance practices -- 3 Child support regimes and relevance -- Types of child support internationally -- The importance of child support to the state -- Changing gender roles and the gender of child support -- Considering the complexity of income, care-time and family forms -- 4 Sites of child support failure -- The leaky pipeline of child support -- Barriers to entry -- The costs and work of seeking child support -- Avoiding seeking support from violent ex-partners -- Falling out of the system over payment terms -- Failing to enforce payments |
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At the other end of the leaky pipeline -- 5 Divergent views of success and failure -- The public and private nature of child support -- Making problems more or less explicit -- The gender of data and the absence of women's concerns -- Technical data and the limited scope of child support reality -- 6 The interests served by failure -- Preserving masculine interests -- Child support as a threat to institutionalised masculinism and to individual men -- The political success of child support backlash -- Rendering child support problems permanent -- Reducing poverty or benefit payments |
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Child support as nonperformative -- The cautionary tale of Australia's child support policy 'success' -- International nonperformativity -- 7 Rendering gendered social problems technical -- Technical 'improvement' practices -- Representing technical child support reality -- Responding to technical child support reality -- Payment technologies -- Compliance and enforcement technologies -- Understanding child support as a product of neoliberal individualism -- The consequences of a technical approach -- 8 The gendered offer of personal solutions |
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The gender of interpersonal child support interactions -- The gender of making oneself 'worthy' of support -- Embedding interests in interaction -- Enacting child support through personal interaction -- Converting child support back into a personal problem -- Individualised interaction as policy -- An absence of data on the private troubles of child support -- 9 Conclusion -- Reimagining child support -- References -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
Drawing on interviews with key international informants across 16 countries, this book examines how child support systems often fail to transfer payments from separated fathers to mothers and their children. It identifies how the gender order is entrenched through child support failure and offers possibilities for feminist reform |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 17, 2022) |
| Subject |
Child support -- Government policy -- Cross-cultural studies
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Sex role -- Political aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
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Single mothers -- Cross-cultural studies
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare.
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Child support -- Government policy
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Sex role -- Political aspects
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Single mothers
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1447348877 |
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9781447348870 |
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9781447348887 |
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1447348885 |
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