Handbook on gender and social policy / edited by Sheila Shaver.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shaver, Sheila, editor.

Series:

International Handbooks on Gender Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 2018.

Summary:

Providing a state of the art overview, this comprehensive Handbook is an essential introduction to the subject of Gender and Social Policy. Bringing together original contributions and research from leading researchers it covers the theoretical perspectives of the field, the central policy terrain of gender inequalities of income, employment and care, and family policy. Examining gender and social policy at both the regional and national level, the Handbook is an excellent resource for advanced students and scholars of sociology, political science, women's studies, policy studies as well as practitioners seeking to understand how gender shapes the contours of social policy and politics.

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 Ellingsæter

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9781785367168

OCLC:

1043846458