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1 online resource (403 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-362) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Women's movements and state restructuring in the 1990s / Melissa Haussman and Birgit Sauer -- Re-evaluating the "heart of society" : family policy in Austria / Birgit Sauer -- Feminism and indigenous rights in Australia in the 1990s / Barbara Sullivan -- Speedy Belgians : the new Nationality Law of 2000 and the impact of the women's movement / Alison E. Woodward -- New federalism and cracked pillars : the Canadian health insurance system under the 2000 Romanow Commission and beyond / Melissa Haussman -- Debating day care in Finland in the midst of an economic recession and welfare state down-sizing / Terhi Aalto and Anne Maria Holli -- Thirty-five hour workweek reforms in France, 1997-2000 : strong feminist demands, elite apathy, and disappointing outcomes / Amy G. Mazur -- Women, embryos, and the good society : gendering the bioethics debate in Germany / Kathrin Braun -- The reform of the state in Italy / Marila Guadagnini -- Electoral reform in mid-1990s Japan / Misako Iwamoto -- The "home care gap" : neoliberalism, feminism, and the state in the Netherlands / Jantine Oldersma and Joyce Outshoorn -- The women's movement, state feminism, and unemployment reform in Spain, 2002-2003 / Celia Valiente -- The debate about care allowance in the light of welfare state reconfiguration / Christina Bergqvist -- The UK : reforming the House of Lords / Joni Lovenduski -- Welfare reform : America's hot issue / Dorothy E. McBride -- Conclusions : State feminism and state restructuring since the 1990s / Birgit Sauer, Melissa Haussman, and Dorothy E. McBride. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Feminist theory -- Political aspects.
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Feminism -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Social policy -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Sex role -- Political aspects.
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Electronic books.
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Haussman, Melissa, 1959- editor.
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Sauer, Birgit, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gendering the state in the age of globalization : women's movements and state feminism in postindustrial democracies. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2007] xvi, 386 pages ; 24 cm 9780742540163 (OCoLC)ocm80019771 (DLC)10927654 |
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9780742540163 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0742540162 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780742540170 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0742540170 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780742581401 (electronic bk.) |
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