Women, Vulnerabilities and Welfare Service Systems

Herausgeber: Kuronen, Marjo; Salovaara, Ulla; Virokannas, Elina

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies welfare systems in Europe and beyond from the standpoint of women in vulnerable positions in society. These systems are under major transformations with new models of service delivery and management, austerity measures, requirements for cost-effectiveness, marketization, and the prioritization of services. Divided into three parts: Welfare service systems (not) responding to vulnerable situations of women Women's encounters with the welfare service system Contradictions of informal support this book considers the experiences and encounters with the service system of women in poverty, homeless women, women with substance use problems, women sentenced of crime, girls and young women in care, and refugees and asylum-seeking women. Drawing upon research and critical discussions from Finland, Canada, Israel, Slovenia, Spain and the UK, this book provides new empirical findings and critical insights, and a valuable resource for the academics and students in social work, social policy, sociology and gender studies, but also for policy makers and professionals in social and health care.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9780367228026
• ISBN-10: 0367228025
• Artikelnr.: 60009034

Autorenporträt

Marjo Kuronen is a Professor of Social Work at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Elina Virokannas is a University Lecturer at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Ulla Salovaara is a Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: women, vulnerabilities and welfare service systems. Part 1
Welfare service systems (not) responding to vulnerable situations of women.
2. Vulnerability as lived experience: marginalised women and girls in the
UK. 3. Finnish welfare service system from the standpoint of women in
vulnerable life situations. 4. Interpreting vulnerabilities facing women in
urban life: a case study in Madrid, Spain. 5. Risky mothers: state-family
relations, risk and the gendered reproduction of vulnerability in Canadian
child welfare. Part 2 Women's encounters with the welfare service system.
6. The right to have a child: an institutional response to the motherhood
of drug users in Slovenia. 7. Incarcerated women, welfare services and the
process of re-entering society in Finland. 8. The reform of the Finnish
income benefit system from the standpoint of lone mothers. 9. Social
framework for understanding women¿s substance abuse, treatment and
vulnerability. Part 3 Contradictions of informal support. 10. Low-income
breadwinning Israeli mothers negotiating economic survival: the exchange of
sex for material resources. 11. Vulnerability and agency: women after
prison in the Basque Autonomous Community, Spain. 12. Peer support among
female substance users in Finland. 13. Concluding remarks: a need for
women-specific services