The legal tender of gender [electronic resource] : welfare, law, and the regulation of women's poverty / edited by Shelley AM Gavigan and Dorothy E Chunn.

Contributor(s): Gavigan, Shelley A. M | Chunn, Dorothy E | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Onati international series in law and societyPublication details: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2010Description: xiii, 294 p. : illSubject(s): Women -- Social conditions | Women -- Legal status, laws, etc | Poor women -- Legal status, laws, etc | Public welfare | Income maintenance programs | NeoliberalismGenre/Form: Electronic books.LOC classification: HV1444 | .L43 2010Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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