States, markets, families
Subtitle: gender, liberalism, and social policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, and the United States
By: Julia S. O'Connor, Ann Shola Orloff, and Sheila Shaver.
Contributors: Orloff, Ann Shola.; Shaver, Sheila.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Social policy.; Women -- Government policy.; Liberalism.; Social planning.; Public welfare.
Description: "This important book examines the impact of changes in social policy regimes on gender roles and relations. Structured thematically and systematically comparative, it analyses three key policy areas: labour markets, income maintenance, and reproductive rights. Largely driven by issues of equality, it considers the role of the state as a site for gender and sexual politics at a time when primacy is given to the market, developing an argument about social citizenship in the process."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-265) and index.