This edition contains a new selection of readings on women and social policy to bring the publication up-to-date and to develop themes that are likely to remain topical into the late 1990s and beyond. The book should be of interest to students and teachers of social policy and women's studies.

Review of the first edition:;'...an excellent introduction to a wide range of topics which should whet the appetite for further reading.' - Annette Holman, Community Care;'...brings together an extremely readable and intellectually challenging set of readings and enhances the reader's understanding of them significantly by a set of excellent introductions." - Peggy Foster, Journal of Social Policy;It is ten years since the first edition of this well-established text was published. The new edition contains an almost entirely new selection of readings, to bring the publication up to date, and to develop themes that are likely to remain topical into the late 1990s and beyond. Where possible and relevant, much of the material has a comparative (particularly European) perspective. The book is an essential text for students and teachers of social policy and women's studies.

Introduction
C.Ungerson &
M.Kember - SECTION 1: WOMEN, SOCIAL SECURITY AND CITIZENSHIP - Introduction
C.Ungerson - Tracing the Contours of Women's Citizenship
R.Lister - Equality, Difference and State Welfare: Labour Market and Family Policies in Sweden
J.Lewis &
G.Astrom - SECTION 2: WOMEN AND THE LABOUR MARKET - Introduction
M.Kember - Women in the Labour Market: Policy in Perspective
A.Dale - Part-time Employment and Labour Market Policies
T.Walsh - Women and '1992': Integration or Segmentation
G.Whitting - SECTION 3: WOMEN AND CHILD CARE - Introduction
M.Kember - Government Policy
J.Brannen &
P.Moss - Locational Issues in Childcare Provision
S.Bowlby - Social Support for Families
A.Coote, H.Harman &
P.Hewitt - Families in Dreamland
P.Morgan - SECTION 4: LONE MOTHERS - Introduction
M.Kember - State, Family and Personal Responsibility: the Changing Balance for Lone Mothers in the UK
J.Millar - The Relative Prosperity of French One-Parent Families
J.Baker - SECTION 5: WOMEN AND HOUSING AND PLANNING POLICY - Introduction
C.Ungerson - Finding a Home
H.Graham - Gender, House and 'Home': Social Meanings and Domestic Architecture in Britain
R.Madigan &
M.Munro - Safer Cities for Women
S.Trench, T.Oc &
S.Tiesdell - SECTION 6: WOMEN AND EDUCATION - Introduction
M.Kember - 'Just Three Quiet Girls'
M.Stanworth - A Gender Agenda
M.David - The New School Governing Bodies: Are Gender and Race on the Agenda?
R.Deem - Can the Barriers be Breached? Mature Women's Access to Higher Education
L.Sperling - Access and Assets: the Experience of Mature Mother Students in Higher Education
R.Edwards SECTION 7: WOMEN AND HEALTH CARE - Introduction
C.Ungerson - Maternity Services
House of Commons Select Committee on Health - Women and Private Medicine
R.Wiles - The New Reproductive Technology: Problem or Solution?
J.Strickler - SECTION 8: WOMEN AND THE PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES - Introduction
C.Ungerson - The Restructuring of the Personal Social Services
M.Langan - Women Caring for People: the Mismatch between Rhetoric and Women's Reality?
H.Brown &
H.Smith - SECTION 9: WOMEN AND INFORMAL CARE - Introduction
C.Ungerson - Informal Care-Givers for Elderly People
S.Arber &
J.Ginn - Feminist Research and Informal Care
J.Morris - Payment for Caring: Mapping a Territory
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