After two decades of feminist challenges to mainstream theorising, gender has become a central element of social policy and the welfare state. A new literature has widened the focus of social policy from state and economy to a three-sided discourse encompassing the state, the market and the family. The Handbook on Gender and Social Policy provides a comprehensive introduction to this field with up-to-date accounts of debates and innovative original research by leading international authors.
The Handbook covers the key areas of social policy that relate to the inequalities between men and women in the developed and developing world. It presents original research on contemporary issues at national and transnational levels across the central policy terrain of income, employment, care and family policy, including family policy models, same-sex marriage and child protection. It features chapters on key perspectives on gender and policy and six original studies of the state of play in different regions of the world.
The Handbook on Gender and Social Policy is an excellent resource for advanced students and postgraduate students of sociology, political science, women's studies, policy studies and related areas. It will also be of interest for practitioners and scholars of social policy seeking up-to-date coverage of how gender affects the contours of social policy and politics.
Contributors include: E. Adamson, C. Arza, D. Balkmar, M. Bernstein, M. Blaxland, M. Brady, D. Brennan, R. Daiger von Gleichen, M. Daly, A.L. Ellingsaeter, V. Esquivel, H. Figueiredo, K.R. Fisher, L. Foster, J. Ginn, S. Harkness, B. Harvey, J. Hearn, B. Hewitt, J. Jenson, T. Knijn, R. Mahon, L. Marg, J. Martínez Franzoni, J. McCoy, S. Meyer, J. Outshoorn, K. Pringle, S. Razavi, E. Reese, J.l. Rubery, M. Seeleib-Kaiser, X. Shang, S. Shaver, S. Staab, C. Valiente, F. Williams, A. Yeatman
Contents:
1. Introduction to the Handbook on Gender and Social Policy
Sheila Shaver
Part I Perspectives
2. Gender, social policy and the idea of the welfare state
Anna Yeatman
3. Intersectionality, gender and social policy
Fiona Williams
4. Men, masculinities and social policy
Jeff Hearn, Keith Pringle and Dag Balkmar
5. Rethinking social policy: A gender perspective from the developing world
Shahra Razavi and Silke Staab
6. Policy reforms on prostitution: The quest for control
Joyce Outshoorn
Part II Inequalities in work and care
7. Gender and economic inequality
Susan Harkness
8. Gender, employment and social policy
Jill Rubery and Hugo Figueiredo
9. Family policies and the weakening of the male-breadwinner model
Rosa Daiger von Gleichen and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser
10. Transmitting inequality: Pensions policy and the gendered life course
Liam Foster and Jay Ginn
11. Social investment, poverty and lone parents
Jane Jenson
12. Care policies for children and adults in high-income countries
Mary Daly
13. Care policies in the South
Valeria Esquivel
14. Care and migration
Deborah Brennan and Elizabeth Adamson
15. Shaping the way international organizations 'see' gender equality: The OECD and ECLAC
Rianne Mahon
Part III Family policy
16. Making and unmaking families
Belinda Hewitt and Michelle Brady
17. The movement towards marriage equality in advanced industrialized countries
Mary Bernstein and Brenna Harvey
18. Women, domestic violence and child protection
Silke Meyer
Part IV Case studies, countries and regions
19. Gender policy in the Netherlands: From a redistributive to an identity-based approach
Trudie Knijn
20. An overview of research on gender and social policy in Spain
Celia Valiente
21. Norway: The evolution of a Nordic earner-carer model
Anne Lise Ellingsćter
22. Social policy in the United States
Ellen Reese, Logan Marg and Julisa McCoy
23. A long decade of gendering social policy in Latin America: Transformative steps and inequality traps
Camila Arza and Juliana Martínez Franzoni
24. Women and care in China
Megan Blaxland, Xiaoyuan Shang and Karen R. Fisher
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