[PDF] Gendering Welfare States eBook

Author : Diane Sainsbury
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 1994-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1446264963

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How can mainstream models and classifications be used in analyzing welfare states and gender? What sorts of modifications to traditional theory are required? These and other questions are addressed in this book - the first to synthesize the insights of feminist and mainstream research in examining the impact of gender on welfare state analysis and outcomes. The text also highlights the effect of welfare state policies on women and men. The international and interdisciplinary contributors approach the subject on two levels. First, they test the applicability of mainstream frameworks to new areas in analyzing gender. Second, they highlight possible reconceptualizations and innovative frameworks designed to provide gender-based analyses. These approaches are combined with a strong comparative component, focusing on a cross-section of countries of major interest in welfare state research.

Author : Diane Sainsbury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 37,50 MB
Release : 1996-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521565790

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What differences do welfare state variations make for women? How do women and men fare in different welfare states? Diane Sainsbury answers these questions by analysing the situation in countries whose welfare state policies differ in significant ways: the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Building on feminist criticisms of mainstream research, Professor Sainsbury reconceptualises the crucial dimensions of variation, notably those relevant to gender. She determines the extent to which legislation reflects and perpetuates the gendered division of labour in the family and society, as well as what types of policy alter gender relations in social provision. She thereby increases our understanding of how policy mechanisms, especially the bases of entitlement, exclude or incorporate women and offers constructive proposals for securing greater equality between women and men.

Author : Madonna Harrington Meyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,12 MB
Release : 2002-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135959579

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Care Work is a collection of original essays on the complexities of providing care. These essays emphasize how social policies intersect with gender, race, and class to alternately compel women to perform care work and to constrain their ability to do so. Leading international scholars from a range of disciplines provide a groundbreaking analysis of the work of caring in the context of the family, the market, and the welfare state.

Author : Diane Sainsbury
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 22,40 MB
Release : 1999-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0191522201

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Gender and Welfare State Regimes focuses on the interrelationships between aspects of the welfare state and labour market policies in structuring and transforming gender relations across a broad spectrum of countries. The book examines the construction of gender in various government welfare policies and illustrates how the specific qualities of the welfare state reinforce or counteract gender inequalities. The book argues that policy variation across the countries surveyed can be attributed to a variety of factors, including differing strategies and demands of the women's movements, the organisational strength of labour movements and industrial relations frameworks, the constellation of parties supporting equality measure, traditional values and state structures. Series Gender and Politics edited by Professor Karen Beckwith at the Department of Political Science, College of Wooster and Professor Joni Lovenduski, Department of Politics, University of Southampton.

Author : Ann Shola Orloff
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Feminism
ISBN :

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Estudio critico que pretende investigar, desde un punto de vista teorico, los efectos que produce el estado de bienestar en las relaciones de genero y viceversa. Se observa como las relaciones se articulan basicamente siguiendo dos tipos de modelos opuestos: 1/el estado reproduce modelos de genero jerarquicos 2/el estado actua de acuerdo a una politica que pretende aminorar la desigualdad social y, por tanto, generica. Se analiza asimismo el concepto de politica maternalista, para finalizar con un estudio comparativo de las relaciones de genero en los distintos estados delbienestar contemporaneos.

Author : Jon Pierre
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199665672

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The Handbook provides a broad introduction to Swedish politics, and how Sweden's political system and policies have evolved over the past few decades.

Author : Gosta Esping-Andersen
Publisher : Polity
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 24,49 MB
Release : 2009-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745643159

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Our future depends very much on how we respond to three great challenges of the new century, all of which threaten to increase social inequality: first, how we adapt institutions to the new role of women; second, how we prepare our children for the knowledge economy; and, third, how we respond to the new demography.

Author : Jennifer Dale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 18,17 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0415635705

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Designed for students of social policy and women’s studies, this text gives a readable account of the wide range of feminist ideas about women and welfare. The authors draw on feminist theory, research and analysis to explore women’s experiences of welfare, and the debates within feminism on how and why the welfare state oppresses women. In an original contribution they discuss women’s impact on the development of the welfare state both as feminist campaigners and as pioneers of new welfare professions. The book concludes by reviewing contemporary feminist strategies to transform the welfare state to meet women’s needs. Whilst the authors put forward their own evaluation of these different feminist approaches, they aim to leave readers with plenty of scope to make up their own minds on the issues.

Author : Anne Digby
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780415187008

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Discusses how and why gender has been so important in shaping modern welfare provision. Key issues covered include: relationship between poverty, health and gender; case studies of female reformers; birth control; women in Labour movement