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Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia : the limits of political ambition? / edited by Kari Melby, Anna Birte-Ravn and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Family policy--Scandinavia.
- Family policy.
- Gender mainstreaming--Scandinavia.
- Gender mainstreaming.
- Equality--Scandinavia.
- Equality.
- Sex discrimination--Scandinavia.
- Sex discrimination.
- Scandinavia--Social policy.
- Scandinavia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 244 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- Pbk. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, UK : Policy, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines the meanings of gender that underpin policies in the Scandinavian welfare states, historically and today, and raises the question whether the hallmark of the Scandinavian welfare model is a special combination of gender equality and gender differentiation.
- Contents:
- A Nordic model of gender equality? : introduction / Kari Melby, Anna-Birte Ravn, and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg
- Woman-friendly policy paradoxes? : childcare policies and gender equality visions in Scandinavia / Anette Borchorst
- The claim of economic citizenship : the concept of equality in a historical context / Christina Carlsson Wetterberg and Kari Melby
- Married women's right to pay taxes : debates on gender, economic citizenship, and tax law reform in Denmark, 1945-83 / Anna-Birte Ravn
- Family policy between science and politics / Åsa Lundqvist
- Academic discourse, social policy, and the construction of new families / Christine Roman
- The 'new father' : gender equality as discursive resource for family policies / Trine Annfelt
- From powerful to powerless fathers : gender equality in Danish family policies on parenthood / Charlotte Andersen and Anna-Birte Ravn
- Dilemmas on citizenship : tensions between gender equality and cultural diversity in the Danish welfare state / Birte Siim
- Women friendly? : understanding gendered racism in Sweden / Diana Mulinari
- Young women's attitudes towards feminism and gender equality / Ann-Dorte Christensen
- A Scandinavian feminist public sphere : discourses on feminism and gender equality / Christina Fiig
- Gender, citizenship, and social justice in the Nordic welfare states : a view from the outside / Ruth Lister
- Future research on gender equality in the Scandinavian countries / Keith Pringle.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Jan 2022).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611794101
- 9781281794109
- 1281794104
- 9781847423412
- 1847423418
- OCLC:
- 519416433
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