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Money in their own name : the feminist voice in poverty debate in Canada, 1970-1995 /

In Money In Their Own Name, Wendy McKeen examines the relationship between gender and social policy in Canada from the 1970s to the 1990s. She provides a detailed historical account of the shaping of feminist politics within the field of federal child benefits programs in Canada, and explores the cr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McKeen, Wendy, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2004.
Series:Studies in comparative political economy and public policy.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Solutions for Women-Friendly Social Policy: The Radial Potential of Individualized Entitlement
  • 2. Understanding How the Interests of New Political Actors Are Shaped: Discourse, Agency, and 'Policy Community'
  • 3. The Maintstream Poverty Debate in the 1960s and the Emergence of a Feminist Alternative
  • 4. Feminism, Poverty Discourse, and the Child Benefits Debate of the Mid- to Late 1970s: 'Writing Women In'
  • 5. Feminism and the Tory Child Benefits Debate of the Earlly to Mid-1980s: Money in Their Own Name?
  • 6. Feminism and Child Poverty Discourse in the Late 1980s to Mid-1990s: 'Writing Women Out'
  • 7. Conclusions: Implications for Current Struggles for Women-Friendly Social Policy.