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Women and the welfare state / Elizabeth Wilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, Elizabeth.
- Series:
- Tavistock women's studies.
- Tavistock women's studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Great Britain--History.
- Women.
- Public welfare--Great Britain.
- Public welfare.
- Welfare state.
- Women and socialism.
- Socialism--Great Britain.
- Socialism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Tavistock Publications, 1977.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Women and the Welfare State approaches the question of welfare policy from an entirely fresh perspective. In it the author argues that an appreciation of the way in which women are defined by welfare policies, and have been since the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution, is essential to a true understanding of the nature of those policies and of the Welfare State. An important, possible the most important, function of welfare policy has been to promote and retain a particular form of the family; indeed, one can define the Welfare State as the State organization of domestic life.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Ideology welfare; Women, social welfare, social work in Victorian society; Women the family since the Second World War; Welfare since the War; Welfare in the twentieth century; Welfare war; Women welfare: past future; References; Subject Index; Author Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliography and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-80074-X
- 1-135-80075-8
- 1-280-31646-2
- 0-203-47926-2
- 9780203479261
- OCLC:
- 475886691
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