Women Build The Welfare State

Author : Donna J. Guy
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822389460

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In this pathbreaking history, Donna J. Guy shows how feminists, social workers, and female philanthropists contributed to the emergence of the Argentine welfare state through their advocacy of child welfare and family-law reform. From the creation of the government-subsidized Society of Beneficence in 1823, women were at the forefront of the child-focused philanthropic and municipal groups that proliferated first to address the impact of urbanization, European immigration, and high infant mortality rates, and later to meet the needs of wayward, abandoned, and delinquent children. Women staffed child-centered organizations that received subsidies from all levels of government. Their interest in children also led them into the battle for female suffrage and the campaign to promote the legal adoption of children. When Juan Perón expanded the welfare system during his presidency (1946–1955), he reorganized private charitable organizations that had, until then, often been led by elite and immigrant women. Drawing on extensive research in Argentine archives, Guy reveals significant continuities in Argentine history, including the rise of a liberal state that subsidized all kinds of women’s and religious groups. State and private welfare efforts became more organized in the 1930s and reached a pinnacle under Juan Perón, when men took over the welfare state and philanthropic and feminist women’s influence on child-welfare activities and policy declined. Comparing the rise of Argentina’s welfare state with the development of others around the world, Guy considers both why women’s child-welfare initiatives have not received more attention in historical accounts and whether the welfare state emerges from the top down or from the bottom up.

Author : Donna J. Guy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Feminists
ISBN : 1478090774

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Women Build the Welfare State by Donna J. Guy Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781135800741

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Women and the Welfare State by Elizabeth Wilson Pdf

Women and the Welfare State approaches the question of welfare policy from an entirely fresh perspective. In it the author argues that an appreciation of the way in which women are defined by welfare policies, and have been since the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution, is essential to a true understanding of the nature of those policies and of the Welfare State. An important, possible the most important, function of welfare policy has been to promote and retain a particular form of the family; indeed, one can define the Welfare State as the State organization of domestic life. To illustrate her arguments the author looks at the development of State welfare intervention from the early nineteenth century to the present day and relates it to the changing position of women, children, and of the family. The traditional Marxist view is modified by a theory of the position of women and by relating changing welfare policies and beliefs about welfare both to the women’s movements of the past century and to the ideas and theories of the contemporary Women’s Liberation Movement. In her approach Elizabeth Wilson argues – uniquely among writers on the Welfare State – for an emphasis on the ideology of welfare.

Author : Linda Gordon
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780299126636

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Women, the State, and Welfare by Linda Gordon Pdf

A collection of essays about women and welfare in America, this book discusses how welfare programmes affect women and how gender relations have influenced the structure of such programmes. Issues such as race and class are also discussed.

Author : Helga Maria Hernes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UVA:X001355629

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Welfare State and Woman Power by Helga Maria Hernes Pdf

During the past decade, Scandinavian women have made significant advances in terms of political power and are beginning to make their presence felt in most areas of welfare state policy. The essays in this book analyze some of the factors which have facilitated women's entry into the public sphere, their participation in political movements and corporate politics, and the placement of women's issues onto the political agenda.

Author : Mimi Abramovitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351855273

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Regulating the Lives of Women by Mimi Abramovitz Pdf

Widely praised as an outstanding contribution to social welfare and feminist scholarship, Regulating the Lives of Women (1988, 1996) was one of the first books to apply a race and gender lens to the U.S. welfare state. The first two editions successfully exposed how myths and stereotypes built into welfare state rules and regulations define women as "deserving" or "undeserving" of aid depending on their race, class, gender, and marital status. Based on considerable new research, the preface to this third edition explains the rise of Neoliberal policies in the mid-1970s, the strategies deployed since then to dismantle the welfare state, and the impact of this sea change on women and the welfare state after 1996. Published upon the twentieth anniversary of "welfare reform," Regulating the Lives of Women offers a timely reminder that public policy continues to punish poor women, especially single mothers-of-color for departing from prescribed wife and mother roles. The book will appeal to undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students of social work, sociology, history, public policy, political science, and women, gender, and black studies – as well as today’s researchers and activists.

Author : Nancy J. Hirschmann,Ulrike Liebert
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813528828

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Women and Welfare by Nancy J. Hirschmann,Ulrike Liebert Pdf

The social welfare state has come under increasing pressure, raising serious doubts about its survival. This book represents an interdisciplinary, multimethodological and multicultural feminist approach ...

Author : Mary Daly,Mary E. Daly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521626218

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The Gender Division of Welfare by Mary Daly,Mary E. Daly Pdf

This book, first published in 2000, compares gender, social equality and welfare issues in Britain and Germany.

Author : Diane Sainsbury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521565790

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Gender, Equality and Welfare States by Diane Sainsbury Pdf

What differences do welfare state variations make for women? How do women and men fare in different welfare states? Diane Sainsbury answers these questions by analysing the situation in countries whose welfare state policies differ in significant ways: the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Building on feminist criticisms of mainstream research, Professor Sainsbury reconceptualises the crucial dimensions of variation, notably those relevant to gender. She determines the extent to which legislation reflects and perpetuates the gendered division of labour in the family and society, as well as what types of policy alter gender relations in social provision. She thereby increases our understanding of how policy mechanisms, especially the bases of entitlement, exclude or incorporate women and offers constructive proposals for securing greater equality between women and men.

Author : Gwendolyn Mink
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501728860

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The Wages of Motherhood by Gwendolyn Mink Pdf

Entering the vigorous debate about the nature of the American welfare state, The Wages of Motherhood illuminates ways in which a "maternalist" social policy emerged from the crucible of gender and racial politics between the world wars. Gwendolyn Mink here examines the cultural dynamics of maternalist social policy, which have often been overlooked by institutional and class analyses of the welfare state. Mink maintains that the movement for welfare provisions, while resulting in important gains, reinforced existing patterns of gender and racial inequality. She explores how AngloAmerican women reformers, as they gained increasing political recognition, promoted an ideology of domesticity that became the core of maternalist social policy. Focusing on reformers such as Jane Addams, Grace Abbott, Katherine Lenroot, and Frances Perkins, Mink shows how they helped shape a social policy premised on moral character and cultural conformity rather than universal entitlement. According to Mink, commitments to a gendered and racialized ideology of virtuous citizenship led women's reform organizations in the United States to support welfare policies that were designed to uplift and regulate motherhood and thus to reform the cultural character of citizens. The upshot was a welfare agenda that linked maternity with dependency, poverty with cultural weakness, and need with moral failing. Relegating poor women and racial minorities to dependent status, maternalist policy had the effect of stengthening ideological and institutional forms of subordination. In Mink's view, the legacy of this benevolent—and invidious—policy contimies to inflect thinking about welfare reform today.

Author : Kimberly J. Morgan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804754144

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Working Mothers and the Welfare State by Kimberly J. Morgan Pdf

This book explains why countries have adopted different policies for working parents through a comparative historical study of four nations: France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States.

Author : JENNIFER DALE,PEGGY FOSTER
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136201448

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Feminists and State Welfare (RLE Feminist Theory) by JENNIFER DALE,PEGGY FOSTER Pdf

Designed for students of social policy and women’s studies, this text gives a readable account of the wide range of feminist ideas about women and welfare. The authors draw on feminist theory, research and analysis to explore women’s experiences of welfare, and the debates within feminism on how and why the welfare state oppresses women. In an original contribution they discuss women’s impact on the development of the welfare state both as feminist campaigners and as pioneers of new welfare professions. The book concludes by reviewing contemporary feminist strategies to transform the welfare state to meet women’s needs. Whilst the authors put forward their own evaluation of these different feminist approaches, they aim to leave readers with plenty of scope to make up their own minds on the issues.

Author : Seth Koven,Sonya Michel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136638695

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Mothers of a New World by Seth Koven,Sonya Michel Pdf

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Mary Daly,Katherine Rake
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745622313

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Gender and the Welfare State by Mary Daly,Katherine Rake Pdf

A comparative picture of the welfare state and gender relations.

Author : Diane Sainsbury
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994-12-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0803978537

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Gendering Welfare States by Diane Sainsbury Pdf

How can mainstream models and classifications be used in analyzing welfare states and gender? What sorts of modifications to traditional theory are required? These and other questions are addressed in this book - the first to synthesize the insights of feminist and mainstream research in examining the impact of gender on welfare state analysis and outcomes. The text also highlights the effect of welfare state policies on women and men. The international and interdisciplinary contributors approach the subject on two levels. First, they test the applicability of mainstream frameworks to new areas in analyzing gender. Second, they highlight possible reconceptualizations and innovative frameworks designed to provide gender-base