Julia S. O'Connor, Sheila Shaver, Ann Shola Orloff

States, Markets, Families

Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The 1990s have seen dramatic restructuring of state social provision in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia. This has occurred largely because of the rise of market liberalism, which challenges the role of the state. This important book examines the impact of changes in social policy regimes on gender roles and relations. Structured thematically and systematically comparative, it analyses three key policy areas: labor markets, income maintenance and reproductive rights. Largely driven by issues of equality, it considers the role of the state as a site for gender and sexual politics at a time when primacy is given to the market, developing an argument about social citizenship in the process. Eminent scholars in the field, Julia O'Connor, Ann Orloff and Sheila Shaver make a landmark contribution to debates about social policy and gender relations in this era of economic restructuring and deregulation.

Table of contents:
1 Gendering theories and comparisons of welfare states; 2 Liberalism, gender and social policy; 3 Labour market and social policy; 4 Social rights against gender stratification and gender power?; 5 Body rights, social rights and reproductive choice; 6 Liberalism, gendered policy logics and mobilisation; 7 States, markets, families.

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.

An important contribution to debates about gender, welfare states and social policy from three leading figures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9780521630924
• ISBN-10: 0521630924
• Artikelnr.: 21794216

Inhaltsangabe

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.