The legal tender of gender : law, welfare, and the regulation of women's poverty / edited by Shelley AM Gavigan and Dorothy E Chunn.
| Other author | Gavigan, Shelley A. M. |
| Other author | Chunn, Dorothy E. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2010. |
| Description | xiii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Onati international series in law and society OnĚati international series in law and society. ^A1079533 |
| Contents | Part I : Historicizing Social Reproduction, Welfare And Neo-liberalism. Women, social reproduction and the neo-liberal assault on the US welfare state / Mimi Abramovitz ; Women, the state and welfare law : the Canadian experience / Shelley A.M. Gavigan and Dorothy E. Chunn -- Part II : Women's Agency And Activism In The Welfare State : Comparative And Historical Perspectives. Gender and the rise of the welfare state in fin-de-siècle New York City : the case of tenement regulation / Felice Batlan ; "Mothers at work" : the welfare rights movement and welfare reform in the 1960s / Premilla Nadasen -- Part III : The Precarious Citizenship And Legal Construction Of Poor Women. Women in the workforce in the context of neo-liberalism : the case of Israel / Mimi Ajzenstadt ; "Risky women" : the role of "risk" in the construction of the single mother / Karen Swift ; Intimate intrustions : welfare regulation and women's personal lives / Janet Mosher ; Retrenchment not reform : using law and policy to restrict the entitlement of women with disabilities to social assistance / Joan M. Gilmour -- Part IV : Reconceptualizing State Forms And Socio-legal Policy. Substantive universality : reconceptualizing feminist approaches to social provision and child care / Hester Lessard ; Women's work and a guaranteed income / Margot Young. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2010286240 |
| ISBN | 9781841133140 |
| ISBN | 1841133140 |
| ISBN | 1841133159 |
| ISBN | 9781841133157 (pbk.) |