Western Welfare in Decline : Globalization and Women's Poverty.
Kingfisher, Catherine.
Western Welfare in Decline : Globalization and Women's Poverty. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (226 pages)
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.
9780812202472
Public welfare.
Social policy.
Poor women-Government policy.
Welfare recipients-Government policy.
Electronic books.
HV51 -- .W47 2002eb
Western Welfare in Decline : Globalization and Women's Poverty. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (226 pages)
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.
9780812202472
Public welfare.
Social policy.
Poor women-Government policy.
Welfare recipients-Government policy.
Electronic books.
HV51 -- .W47 2002eb