The legal tender of gender : welfare, law, and the regulation of women's poverty /
edited by Shelley AM Gavigan and Dorothy E Chunn.
- Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2010.
- xiii, 294 p. : ill., 24 cm.
- Onati international series in law and society .
- Oñati international series in law and society. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Women, social reproduction and the neo-liberal assault on the US welfare state / Women, the state and welfare law : the Canadian experience / Gender and the rise of the welfare state in fin-de-siècle New York City : the case of tenement regulation / "Mothers at work" : the welfare rights movement and welfare reform in the 1960s / Women in the workforce in the context of neo-liberalism : the case of Israel / "Risky women" : the role of "risk" in the construction of the single mother / Intimate intrusions : welfare regulation and women's personal lives / Retrenchment not reform : using law and policy to restrict the entitlement of women with disabilities to social assistance / Substantive universality : reconceptualizing feminist approaches to social provision and child care / Women's work and a guaranteed income / Mimi Abramovitz ; Shelley A.M. Gavigan and Dorothy E. Chunn -- Felice Batlan ; Premilla Nadasen -- Mimi Ajzenstadt ; Karen Swift ; Janet Mosher ; Joan M. Gilmour -- Hester Lessard ; Margot Young. Part I : Historicizing Social Reproduction, Welfare And Neo-liberalism. Part II : Women's Agency And Activism In The Welfare State : Comparative And Historical Perspectives. Part III : The Precarious Citizenship And Legal Construction Of Poor Women. Part IV : Reconceptualizing State Forms And Socio-legal Policy.
9781841133140 1841133140 9781841133157 (pbk.) 1841133159
2010286240
Women--Social conditions.
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
Poor women--Legal status, laws, etc.
Public welfare.
Income maintenance programs.
Neoliberalism.
HV1444 / .L43 2010
362.839
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Women, social reproduction and the neo-liberal assault on the US welfare state / Women, the state and welfare law : the Canadian experience / Gender and the rise of the welfare state in fin-de-siècle New York City : the case of tenement regulation / "Mothers at work" : the welfare rights movement and welfare reform in the 1960s / Women in the workforce in the context of neo-liberalism : the case of Israel / "Risky women" : the role of "risk" in the construction of the single mother / Intimate intrusions : welfare regulation and women's personal lives / Retrenchment not reform : using law and policy to restrict the entitlement of women with disabilities to social assistance / Substantive universality : reconceptualizing feminist approaches to social provision and child care / Women's work and a guaranteed income / Mimi Abramovitz ; Shelley A.M. Gavigan and Dorothy E. Chunn -- Felice Batlan ; Premilla Nadasen -- Mimi Ajzenstadt ; Karen Swift ; Janet Mosher ; Joan M. Gilmour -- Hester Lessard ; Margot Young. Part I : Historicizing Social Reproduction, Welfare And Neo-liberalism. Part II : Women's Agency And Activism In The Welfare State : Comparative And Historical Perspectives. Part III : The Precarious Citizenship And Legal Construction Of Poor Women. Part IV : Reconceptualizing State Forms And Socio-legal Policy.
9781841133140 1841133140 9781841133157 (pbk.) 1841133159
2010286240
Women--Social conditions.
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
Poor women--Legal status, laws, etc.
Public welfare.
Income maintenance programs.
Neoliberalism.
HV1444 / .L43 2010
362.839