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Zusatztext This volume makes a substantial contribution to the scholarly literature on the welfare state! elucidating the socio-legal forms of neo-liberalism and their adverse effects on poor women in Canada! Israel! and the U.S. The book is well organized! the chapters show painstaking research! and the authors make powerful arguments. Commendably! the contributors connect the material and the discursive aspects of the changing welfare state.Another strength is the volume's coherence and cohesiveness....the volume should be of particular interest and value to law and courts scholars. ...an intellectually rich volume! both theoretically and empirically! that deserves to become a staple of scholarly research and graduate courses across several disciplines. Informationen zum Autor Shelley AM Gavigan, BA, LLB (Sask.), MA (Toronto), LLM (Osgoode/York), SJD (Toronto), is Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Canada, and a member of the Bars of Saskatchewan and Ontario. Dorothy E Chunn, MA, PhD (Toronto), is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Feminist Institute for Studies on Law and Society at Simon Fraser University. She is co-editor (with Susan B Boyd & Hester Lessard) of Reaction and Resistance: Feminism, Law, and Social Change (UBC Press, 2007).] Klappentext Extensive welfare, law, and policy reforms characterized the making and unmaking of Keynesian states in the 20th century. This collection highlights the gendered nature of these regulatory shifts and, specifically, the roles played by women - as reformers, welfare workers, and welfare recipients - in the historical development of welfare states. The contributors are leading feminist socio-legal scholars from a range of disciplines in the US, Canada, and Israel. Collectively, their analyses of women, law, and poverty speak to long-standing and ongoing feminist concerns: the importance of historically informed research, the relevance of women's agency and resistance to the experience of inequality and injustice, the specificity of the experience of poor women and poor mothers, the implications of changes to social policy, and the possibilities for social change. Such analyses are particularly timely as the devastation of neo-liberalism becomes increasingly obvious. The current world cris Zusammenfassung This collection highlights the gendered nature of the making and unmaking of Keynesian states in the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Historicizing Social Reproduction, Welfare and Neo liberalism1. Women, Social Reproduction and the Neo-Liberal Assault on the US Welfare State MIMI ABRAMOVITZ2. Women, the State and Welfare Law: The Canadian Experience SHELLEY AM GAVIGAN AND DOROTHY E CHUNNPart II: Women's Agency and Activism in the Welfare State: Comparative and Historical Perspectives3. Gender and the Rise of the Welfare State in Fin-de-Siècle New York City: The Case of Tenement Regulation FELICE BATLAN4. 'Mothers at Work': The Welfare Rights Movement and Welfare Reform in the 1960s PREMILLA NADASENPart III: The Precarious Citizenship and Legal Construction of Poor Women5. Women in the Workforce in the Context of Neo-Liberalism: The Case of Israel MIMI AJZENSTADT6. 'Risky Women': The Role of 'Risk' in the Construction of the Single Mother KAREN SWIFT7. Intimate Intrusions: Welfare Regulation and Women's Personal Lives JANET MOSHER8. Retrenchment not Reform: Using Law and Policy to Restrict the Entitlement of Women with Disabilities to Social Assistance JOAN M GILMOURPart IV: Reconceptualizing State Forms and Socio-Legal Policy9. Substantive Universality: Reconceptualizing Feminist Approaches to Social Provision and Child Care HESTER LESSARD10. Women's Work and a Guaranteed Income MARGOT YOUNG...
