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The Legal Tender of Gender : Law, Welfare and the Regulation of Women's Poverty.

Extensive welfare, law and policy reforms characterised the making and unmaking of Keynesian states in the twentieth century. This collection highlights the gendered nature of these regulatory shifts and, specifically, the roles played by women as reformers, welfare workers and welfare recipients, i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gavigan, Shelley
Otros Autores: Chunn, Dorothy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Hart Pub., 2010.
Colección:Oati International Series in Law and Society
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Extensive welfare, law and policy reforms characterised the making and unmaking of Keynesian states in the twentieth century. This collection highlights the gendered nature of these regulatory shifts and, specifically, the roles played by women as reformers, welfare workers and welfare recipients, in the development of welfare states historically. The contributors are leading feminist socio-legal scholars from a range of disciplines in Canada, the United States and Israel. Collectively, their analyses of women, law and poverty speak to long-standing and ongoing feminist concerns: the importanc.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (308 pages).
ISBN:9781847315625
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