Gender, the State, and Social Reproduction : Household Insecurity in Neo-Liberal Times.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- 1 The Neo-liberal Experiment in Ontario, 1995-2000 -- Conceptual Issues -- Methodological Issues -- Outline of the Book -- 2 Struggles over Social Reproduction in a Neo-liberal Era -- The Dynamics of Social Reproduction -- Mediating Social Reproduction -- Towards a New Gender Order? -- 3 Legislative and Regulatory Changes in Ontario, 1995-2000 -- Neo-liberal Reorientations -- Implementing the Neo-liberal Project in Ontario, 1995-2000 -- Escalating Tensions in Social Reproduction -- 4 Putting Together a Living in Ontario in the Late 1990s -- Overview of Household Incomes, 1997-2000 -- Income from Labour Market Participation -- Income from Government -- Income from Other Sources -- Putting It All Together -- 5 Interactive Effects of Social Policy Change on Households -- Health Care -- Education and Child Care -- Social Assistance -- Housing and Transportation -- Multiple and Compounding Effects of Policy Change -- 6 Coping Strategies of Low-Income Households -- Household Division of Labour and Resource Control -- Coping Strategies -- Putting Together a Living: A Profile in Coping -- Coping Consequences -- 7 Rethinking Welfare State Retrenchment -- Appendix A: 1998 Low Income Cut-Offs (LICOs) -- Appendix B: Selection and Recruitment of Participants -- Appendix C: Detailed Household Structure -- Appendix D: Benchmark Questions -- Appendix E: Speaking Out Research Process -- Appendix F: List of Speaking Out Publications -- Appendix G: Profiles of Participant Households Who Received Social Assistance in the 1990s -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

A controversial and illuminating study, Gender, the State, and Social Reproductioncrosses the disciplines of politics, history, gender studies, and sociology.

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