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1 online resource (xvi, 386 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-362) and index. |
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Introduction : Women's movements and state restructuring in the 1990s / Melissa Haussman and Birgit Sauer -- Re-evaluating the "heart of society" : family policy in Austria / Birgit Sauer -- Feminism and indigenous rights in Australia in the 1990s / Barbara Sullivan -- Speedy Belgians : the new Nationality Law of 2000 and the impact of the women's movement / Alison E. Woodward -- New federalism and cracked pillars : the Canadian health insurance system under the 2000 Romanow Commission and beyond / Melissa Haussman -- Debating day care in Finland in the midst of an economic recession and welfare state down-sizing / Terhi Aalto and Anne Maria Holli -- Thirty-five hour workweek reforms in France, 1997-2000 : strong feminist demands, elite apathy, and disappointing outcomes / Amy G. Mazur -- Women, embryos, and the good society : gendering the bioethics debate in Germany / Kathrin Braun -- The reform of the state in Italy / Marila Guadagnini -- Electoral reform in mid-1990s Japan / Misako Iwamoto -- The "home care gap" : neoliberalism, feminism, and the state in the Netherlands / Jantine Oldersma and Joyce Outshoorn -- The women's movement, state feminism, and unemployment reform in Spain, 2002-2003 / Celia Valiente -- The debate about care allowance in the light of welfare state reconfiguration / Christina Bergqvist -- The UK : reforming the House of Lords / Joni Lovenduski -- Welfare reform : America's hot issue / Dorothy E. McBride -- Conclusions : State feminism and state restructuring since the 1990s / Birgit Sauer, Melissa Haussman, and Dorothy E. McBride. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
Gendering the State is a ground-breaking collection of studies that examines the efforts of women in countries all over the world to frame public policy debates on nationally critical issues in gendered terms. The overall study is grouped into three distinct patterns of state change: state downsizing_particularly in social policy areas (Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, the United States, and Spain); expansion of state activities into previously less-regulated areas (Austria, France, Germany, and Sweden); and transformation_often constitutionally based_of representative structures (Australia. |
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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English. |
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Feminist theory -- Political aspects.
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Feminist theory -- Political aspects. |
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Feminism -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Feminism -- Cross-cultural studies. |
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Social policy -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Social policy. |
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Cross-cultural studies.
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Sex role -- Political aspects.
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Sex role -- Political aspects. |
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Electronic books.
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Feminist theory. |
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Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
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Gender roles. |
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Haussman, Melissa, 1959-
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Sauer, Birgit.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gendering the state in the age of globalization Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007. 9780742540163 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2007000035 |
| ISBN |
9780742581401 ebook |
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0742581403 |
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9780742540163 cloth alkaline paper |
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0742540162 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780742540170 paperback alkaline paper |
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0742540170 paperback alkaline paper |
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1299794017 (e-book) |
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9781299794016 (e-book) |
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