TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gavigan,Shelley A.M.
AU  - Chunn,Dorothy E.
TI  - The legal tender of gender: welfare, law, and the regulation of women's poverty 
T2  - Onati international series in law and society
SN  - 9781841133140
AV  - HV1444 .L43 2010
U1  - 362.839 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Oxford, Portland, Or.
PB  - Hart
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Poor women
KW  - Public welfare
KW  - Income maintenance programs
KW  - Neoliberalism
N1  - 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-siècle 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
ER  -