TY - BOOK AU - Gavigan, Shelley A. M. AU - Chunn, Dorothy E. TI - The legal tender of gender: welfare, law, and the regulation of women's poverty T2 - Onati international series in law and society (Hart Publishing, Oxford) SN - 9781841133140 U1 - 362.839 21E PY - 2010/// CY - Oxford, Portland PB - Hart KW - Women KW - Social conditions KW - Legal status, laws, etc KW - Poor women KW - Public welfare KW - Income maintenance programs KW - Neoliberalism N1 - Notes bibliogr; Part I : Historicizing Social Reproduction, Welfare And Neo-liberalism; Women, social reproduction and the neo-liberal assault on the US welfare state; Mimi Abramovitz; Women, the state and welfare law : the Canadian experience; Shelley A.M. Gavigan and Dorothy E. Chunn --; Part II : Women's Agency And Activism In The Welfare State : Comparative And Historical Perspectives; Gender and the rise of the welfare state in fin-de-siècle New York City : the case of tenement regulation; Felice Batlan; "Mothers at work" : the welfare rights movement and welfare reform in the 1960s; Premilla Nadasen --; Part III : The Precarious Citizenship And Legal Construction Of Poor Women; Women in the workforce in the context of neo-liberalism : the case of Israel; Mimi Ajzenstadt; "Risky women" : the role of "risk" in the construction of the single mother; Karen Swift; Intimate intrusions : welfare regulation and women's personal lives; Janet Mosher; Retrenchment not reform : using law and policy to restrict the entitlement of women with disabilities to social assistance; Joan M. Gilmour --; Part IV : Reconceptualizing State Forms And Socio-legal Policy; Substantive universality : reconceptualizing feminist approaches to social provision and child care; Hester Lessard; Women's work and a guaranteed income; Margot Young ER -