States, Markets, Families - Gender, Liberalism Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain

Zusammenfassung Three leading figures in the field make this important contribution to debates about social policy and gender relations in an era of economic restructuring and market liberalism. A thematic! comparative analysis of labor markets! income maintenance and reproductive rights! it considers Canada! the UK! US and Australia. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Liberalism, gender and social policy; 3. Labour market participation in liberal welfare state regimes: earner-carer labor market participation without earner-carer social policy frameworks; 4. Social rights against gender stratification and gender power?; 5. Body rights, social rights and reproductive choice; 6. Liberalism, gendered policy logics and mobilisation: a story of coherence and contradictions; 7. States, markets, families; List of references.

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• Authors: &apos, Julia S. Orloff connor, O&apos, Julia S. O'Connor, Julia S. (National Economic and Social O''connor, Julia S. Orloff O''connor, O'Connor Julia S., Ann Shola Orloff, Orloff Ann Shola, Sheila Shaver, Shaver Sheila
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.01.1999
• EAN: 9780521638814
• ISBN: 978-0-521-63881-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Canada, Australia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States of America, USA, Gender studies, gender groups