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
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