| Description |
x, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: engendering welfare, degendering care: theoretical and comparative perspectives on the United States and Europe / Nancy J. Hirschmann and Ulrike Liebert -- Dependencies / Martha Albertson Fineman -- From welfare to a public ethic of care / Eva Feder Kittay -- Who cares? public and private caring and the rethinking of citizenship / Joan C. Tronto -- A question of freedom, a question of rights? women and welfare / Nancy J. Hirschmann -- Welfare reform in the 104th Congress: institutional position and the role of women / Kathleen J. Casey, Susan J. Carroll -- Ending the entitlements of poor single mothers: changing social policies, women's employment, and caregiving in the contemporary United States / Ann Shola Orloff -- The rhetoric and reality of welfare reform / Heidi Hartmann, Hsiao-Ye Yi -- At the kitchen table: poor women making public policy / Lisa Dodson -- Challenging the maternalistic presumption: the gender politics of welfare reform in Germany and the United States / Joyce Marie Mushaben -- Gendering welfare state variation: income transfers, employment supports, and family poverty / Marcia K. Meyers, Janet C. Gornick -- Women in the restructuring of care-work: crossnational variations and trends in ten OECD-countries / Susan Christopherson -- Degendering care and engendering freedom: social welfare in the European Union / Ulrike Liebert. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-312) and index. |
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Public welfare -- United States -- Congresses.
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Public welfare. |
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United States. |
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Public welfare -- Europe -- Congresses.
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Europe. |
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Welfare state -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
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Welfare state. |
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Cross-cultural studies.
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Poor women -- United States -- Congresses.
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Poor women. |
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Poor women -- Europe -- Congresses.
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Feminist theory -- United States -- Congresses.
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Feminist theory. |
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Feminist theory -- Europe -- Congresses.
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Feminist theory. |
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Hirschmann, Nancy J.
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Liebert, Ulrike.
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| ISBN |
0813528828 paperback |
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081352881X |
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