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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Hart Pub.,
2010.
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| Colección: | Oati International Series in Law and Society
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prelims; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I Historicizing Social Reproduction, Welfare and Neo-liberalism; 1 Women, Social Reproduction and the Neo-Liberal Assault on the US Welfare State; 2 Women, the State and Welfare Law; Part II Women's Agency and Activism in the Welfare State: Comparative and Historical Perspectives; 3 Gender and the Rise of the Welfare State in Fin-de-Sicle New York City; 4 'Mothers at Work'; Part III The Precarious Citizenship and Legal Construction of Poor Women; 5 Women in the Workforce in the Context of Neo-Liberalism.
- 6 'Risky Women'7 Intimate Intrusions; 8 Retrenchment not Reform; Part IV Reconceptualizing State Forms and Socio-Legal Policy; 9 Substantive Universality; 10 Women's Work and a Guaranteed Income; Index.