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The Legal Tender of Gender : Law, Welfare and the Regulation of Women's Poverty.

Gavigan, Shelley A. M.

The Legal Tender of Gender : Law, Welfare and the Regulation of Women's Poverty. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (308 pages) - Oñati International Series in Law and Society Series . - Oñati International Series in Law and Society Series .

Prelims -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Historicizing Social Reproduction, Welfare and Neo-liberalism -- 1 Women, Social Reproduction and the Neo-Liberal Assault on the US Welfare State -- 2 Women, the State and Welfare Law -- Part II Women's Agency and Activism in the Welfare State: Comparative and Historical Perspectives -- 3 Gender and the Rise of the Welfare State in Fin-de-Siècle New York City -- 4 'Mothers at Work' -- Part III The Precarious Citizenship and Legal Construction of Poor Women -- 5 Women in the Workforce in the Context of Neo-Liberalism -- 6 'Risky Women' -- 7 Intimate Intrusions -- 8 Retrenchment not Reform -- Part IV Reconceptualizing State Forms and Socio-Legal Policy -- 9 Substantive Universality -- 10 Women's Work and a Guaranteed Income -- Index.

This collection highlights the gendered nature of the making and unmaking of Keynesian states in the twentieth century.

9781847315625


Income maintenance programs.


Electronic books.

HV1444.L43 2010

362.82

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