| Description |
xiii, 294 p. : ill. |
| Series |
Onati international series in law and society |
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Onati international series in law and society.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I : Historicizing Social Reproduction, Welfare And Neo-liberalism. Women, social reproduction and the neo-liberal assault on the US welfare state / Mimi Abramovitz ; Women, the state and welfare law : the Canadian experience / Shelley A.M. Gavigan and Dorothy E. Chunn -- Part II : Women's Agency And Activism In The Welfare State : Comparative And Historical Perspectives. Gender and the rise of the welfare state in fin-de-siecle New York City : the case of tenement regulation / Felice Batlan ; "Mothers at work" : the welfare rights movement and welfare reform in the 1960s / Premilla Nadasen -- Part III : The Precarious Citizenship And Legal Construction Of Poor Women. Women in the workforce in the context of neo-liberalism : the case of Israel / Mimi Ajzenstadt ; "Risky women" : the role of "risk" in the construction of the single mother / Karen Swift ; Intimate intrusions : welfare regulation and women's personal lives / Janet Mosher ; Retrenchment not reform : using law and policy to restrict the entitlement of women with disabilities to social assistance / Joan M. Gilmour -- Part IV : Reconceptualizing State Forms And Socio-legal Policy. Substantive universality : reconceptualizing feminist approaches to social provision and child care / Hester Lessard ; Women's work and a guaranteed income / Margot Young. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Women -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Poor women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Public welfare.
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Income maintenance programs.
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Neoliberalism.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Gavigan, Shelley A. M.
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Chunn, Dorothy E.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9781841133140 |
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1841133140 |
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9781841133157 (pbk.) |
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1841133159 |
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