Social Policy

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DO WOMEN HAVE A WELFARE STATE? DO WOMEN NEED WELFARE? No-one can hope to understand the workings of the welfare state without first appreciating women's part in it. In the past decade, the significance of the gendering of welfare states has become widely accepted, extensively charted in research and more systematically theorized. Building on her earlier work, Social Policy: A Feminist Analysis, Gillian Pascali outlines the developments that have taken place during the eleven years since its first publication. Social Policy: A New Feminist Analysis reflects extensive social changes in women's participation at work, educational achievement, security in marriage; and policy changes aimed at producing a mixed economy of welfare, increasing family responsibility in health, community care, housing and income security. It examines the changing pattern of welfare provision, with increasing reliance on women's unpaid work, the gendered nature of UK welfare structures, the continuing... Tovább

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DO WOMEN HAVE A WELFARE STATE? DO WOMEN NEED WELFARE? No-one can hope to understand the workings of the welfare state without first appreciating women's part in it. In the past decade, the significance of the gendering of welfare states has become widely accepted, extensively charted in research and more systematically theorized. Building on her earlier work, Social Policy: A Feminist Analysis, Gillian Pascali outlines the developments that have taken place during the eleven years since its first publication. Social Policy: A New Feminist Analysis reflects extensive social changes in women's participation at work, educational achievement, security in marriage; and policy changes aimed at producing a mixed economy of welfare, increasing family responsibility in health, community care, housing and income security. It examines the changing pattern of welfare provision, with increasing reliance on women's unpaid work, the gendered nature of UK welfare structures, the continuing dependence of women, on men's incomes and on welfare benefits, the public/private divide, women's non-citizenship as carers for young and old, and the changing political climate of the 1980s and 1990s. This book will provide ideál reading for students of social policy, social administration and women's studies courses. Gillian Pascali is Lecturer in Social Policy and Administration at the University of Nottingham. Vissza