TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kingfisher,Catherine
TI  - Western Welfare in Decline: Globalization and Women's Poverty
SN  - 9780812202472
AV  - HV51 -- .W47 2002eb 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Public welfare
KW  - Social policy
KW  - Poor women-Government policy
KW  - Welfare recipients-Government policy
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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