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Western Welfare in Decline : Globalization and Women's Poverty.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (226 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812202472
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Western Welfare in DeclineLOC classification:
  • HV51 -- .W47 2002eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Part I: The Big Picture: Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Feminization of Poverty -- 1 Introduction: The Global Feminization of Poverty -- 2 Neoliberalism I: Discourses of Personhood and Welfare Reform -- 3 Neoliberalism II: The Global Free Market -- 4 Globalization as Hybridity -- Part II: On the Ground: Case Studies in the Articulation of (Gendered) Neoliberalism with (Gendered) Local Culture -- 5 From New Deal to Bad Deal: Racial and Political Implications of U.S. Welfare Reform -- 6 The Great Undoing: State Formation, Gender Politics, and Social Policy in Canada -- 7 The Responsible Citizen: Creating a New British Welfare Contract -- 8 Paradoxes in "Paradise": The Changing Politics of Women, Welfare, and Work in Australia -- 9 Neoliberalisrn and Tino Rangatiratanga: Welfare State Restructuring in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- 10 Where to Next? Against and Beyond Neoliberalisrn -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Western Welfare in Decline explores the plight of poor single mothers in five English-speaking countries that have implemented welfare restructuring: the United States, Canada, Britain, and New Zealand.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Part I: The Big Picture: Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Feminization of Poverty -- 1 Introduction: The Global Feminization of Poverty -- 2 Neoliberalism I: Discourses of Personhood and Welfare Reform -- 3 Neoliberalism II: The Global Free Market -- 4 Globalization as Hybridity -- Part II: On the Ground: Case Studies in the Articulation of (Gendered) Neoliberalism with (Gendered) Local Culture -- 5 From New Deal to Bad Deal: Racial and Political Implications of U.S. Welfare Reform -- 6 The Great Undoing: State Formation, Gender Politics, and Social Policy in Canada -- 7 The Responsible Citizen: Creating a New British Welfare Contract -- 8 Paradoxes in "Paradise": The Changing Politics of Women, Welfare, and Work in Australia -- 9 Neoliberalisrn and Tino Rangatiratanga: Welfare State Restructuring in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- 10 Where to Next? Against and Beyond Neoliberalisrn -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

Western Welfare in Decline explores the plight of poor single mothers in five English-speaking countries that have implemented welfare restructuring: the United States, Canada, Britain, and New Zealand.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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