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Gender and the Welfare State
Care, Work and Welfare in Europe and the USA
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Gender and the Welfare State
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This accessible book explores the configuration of care, work and welfare in the major European Union countries and in the USA. Bringing together the most recent empirical data available, it examines the impact of the welfare state on women's and men's roles and power relations, and on their access to resources.
Written in an accessible style, Gender and the Welfare State brings together wide--ranging information from the major European Union countries as well as from the USA, providing the reader with essential reference material. It will be welcomed by all those interested in gender, social policies and the comparative study of welfare states.
| ISBN | 745622321 |
| ISBN13 | 9780745622323 |
| Publisher | Polity Press |
| Format | Paperback |
| Publication date | 22/05/2003 |
| Pages | 224 |
| Weight (grammes) | 318 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Height (mm) | 226 |
| Width (mm) | 155 |
Introduction. Chapter 1 Studying the Welfare State and Gender: The Insights of Existing Work. Chapter 2 Framework of Analysis. Chapter 3 Gender and the Provision of Care. Chapter 4 Gender and Work. Chapter 5 Welfare, Household Resources and Gender Relations. Chapter 6 Bringing it All Back Home: Individual Resources, Family Redistribution and Gender Relations. Chapter 7 Towards an Explanation of National Configurations and Cross--national Patterns. Chapter 8 Conclusions and Overview. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Technical Appendix






