Gender Equality and Welfare Politics in Scandinavia The Limits of Political Ambition?

Informationen zum Autor Kari Melby is Professor of History, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture/Centre for Feminist and Gender Studies, and Vice-Dean for Research, Faculty of Arts, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. Anna-Birte Ravn is Associate Professor in Gender Division of Work and Social Change at FREIA, Centre for Feminist Research, Aalborg University, Denmark. Christina Carlsson Wetterberg is Professor of History at Örebro University, Sweden. Klappentext This book examines the meanings of gender that underpin policies in the Scandinavian welfare states, historically and today, and raises the question whether the hallmark of the Scandinavian welfare model is a special combination of gender equality and gender differentiation. Zusammenfassung This book examines the meanings of gender that underpin policies in the Scandinavian welfare states! historically and today! and raises the question whether the hallmark of the Scandinavian welfare model is a special combination of gender equality and gender differentiation.

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• Authors: Karie Melby, Christina Carlsson, Et al
• Assisted by: Kari (Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture Melby (Editor), Christina (Department of Humanities Carlsson Wetterberg (Editor), Anna-Birte (Institute for History Ravn (Editor), Kari Melby (Editor), Anna-Birte Ravn (Editor), Christina Carlsson Wetterberg (Editor), Christina Carlsson Wetterberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Policy press/ univ.bristol
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 05.03.2008
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories
• EAN: 9781847420664
• ISBN: 978-1-84742-066-4
• Dimensions (packing): 18 x 24.5 x 1.7 cm