The legal tender of gender welfare, law, and the regulation of women's poverty /
The legal tender of gender welfare, law, and the regulation of women's poverty / [Texte imprimé] :
edited by Shelley A. M. Gavigan and Dorothy E. Chunn
- Oxford ; Portland : Hart, 2010
- 1 vol. (XIII-294 p.) : ill., 24 cm
- Onati international series in law and society (Hart Publishing, Oxford) .
- Onati international series in law and society (Hart Publishing, Oxford) .
Notes bibliogr.
Women, social reproduction and the neo-liberal assault on the US welfare state / Women, the state and welfare law : the Canadian experience / Gender and the rise of the welfare state in fin-de-siècle New York City : the case of tenement regulation / "Mothers at work" : the welfare rights movement and welfare reform in the 1960s / Women in the workforce in the context of neo-liberalism : the case of Israel / "Risky women" : the role of "risk" in the construction of the single mother / Intimate intrusions : welfare regulation and women's personal lives / Retrenchment not reform : using law and policy to restrict the entitlement of women with disabilities to social assistance / Substantive universality : reconceptualizing feminist approaches to social provision and child care / Women's work and a guaranteed income / Mimi Abramovitz ; Shelley A.M. Gavigan and Dorothy E. Chunn -- Felice Batlan ; Premilla Nadasen -- Mimi Ajzenstadt ; Karen Swift ; Janet Mosher ; Joan M. Gilmour -- Hester Lessard ; Margot Young. Part I : Historicizing Social Reproduction, Welfare And Neo-liberalism. Part II : Women's Agency And Activism In The Welfare State : Comparative And Historical Perspectives. Part III : The Precarious Citizenship And Legal Construction Of Poor Women. Part IV : Reconceptualizing State Forms And Socio-legal Policy.
9781841133140 9781841133157
Women Women Poor women Public welfare Income maintenance programs Neoliberalism
362.839
Notes bibliogr.
Women, social reproduction and the neo-liberal assault on the US welfare state / Women, the state and welfare law : the Canadian experience / Gender and the rise of the welfare state in fin-de-siècle New York City : the case of tenement regulation / "Mothers at work" : the welfare rights movement and welfare reform in the 1960s / Women in the workforce in the context of neo-liberalism : the case of Israel / "Risky women" : the role of "risk" in the construction of the single mother / Intimate intrusions : welfare regulation and women's personal lives / Retrenchment not reform : using law and policy to restrict the entitlement of women with disabilities to social assistance / Substantive universality : reconceptualizing feminist approaches to social provision and child care / Women's work and a guaranteed income / Mimi Abramovitz ; Shelley A.M. Gavigan and Dorothy E. Chunn -- Felice Batlan ; Premilla Nadasen -- Mimi Ajzenstadt ; Karen Swift ; Janet Mosher ; Joan M. Gilmour -- Hester Lessard ; Margot Young. Part I : Historicizing Social Reproduction, Welfare And Neo-liberalism. Part II : Women's Agency And Activism In The Welfare State : Comparative And Historical Perspectives. Part III : The Precarious Citizenship And Legal Construction Of Poor Women. Part IV : Reconceptualizing State Forms And Socio-legal Policy.
9781841133140 9781841133157
Women Women Poor women Public welfare Income maintenance programs Neoliberalism
362.839