Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia
Subtitle: the limits of political ambition?
By: edited by Kari Melby, Anna Birte-Ravn and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg.
Contributors: Melby, Kari.; Wetterberg, Christina Carlsson, 1950-; Ravn, Anna-Birte.
Publisher: Policy
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bristol, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781847420664
Subjects: Family policy -- Scandinavia; Gender-based analysis -- Scandinavia; Equality -- Scandinavia; Sex discrimination -- Scandinavia; Scandinavia -- Social policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A Nordic model of gender equality? : introduction / Kari Melby, Anna-Birte Ravn, and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg; title: Woman-friendly policy paradoxes? : childcare policies and gender equality visions in Scandinavia / Anette Borchorst; title: The claim of economic citizenship : the concept of equality in a historical context / Christina Carlsson Wetterberg and Kari Melby; title: Married women's right to pay taxes : debates on gender, economic citizenship, and tax law reform in Denmark, 1945-83 / Anna-Birte Ravn; title: Family policy between science and politics / Åsa Lundqvist; title: Academic discourse, social policy, and the construction of new families / Christine Roman; title: The 'new father' : gender equality as discursive resource for family policies / Trine Annfelt; title: From powerful to powerless fathers : gender equality in Danish family policies on parenthood / Charlotte Andersen and Anna-Birte Ravn; title: Dilemmas on citizenship : tensions between gender equality and cultural diversity in the Danish welfare state / Birte Siim; title: Women friendly? : understanding gendered racism in Sweden / Diana Mulinari; title: Young women's attitudes towards feminism and gender equality / Ann-Dorte Christensen; title: A Scandinavian feminist public sphere : discourses on feminism and gender equality / Christina Fiig; title: Gender, citizenship, and social justice in the Nordic welfare states : a view from the outside / Ruth Lister; title: Future research on gender equality in the Scandinavian countries / Keith Pringle.