The Legal Tender of Gender: Welfare, Law and the Regulation of Women's Poverty
Extensive welfare, law, and policy reforms characterized the making and unmaking of Keynesian states in the 20th century. This collection highlights the gendered nature of these regulatory shifts and, specifically, the roles played by women - as reformers, welfare workers, and welfare recipients - in the historical development of welfare states. The contributors are leading feminist socio-legal scholars from a range of disciplines in the US, Canada, and Israel. Collectively, their analyses of women, law, and poverty speak to long-standing and ongoing feminist concerns: the importance of historically informed research, the relevance of women's…
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Weitere Autoren: Gavigan, Shelley A. M. (Hrsg.) / Nelken, David (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-84113-315-7
- EAN: 9781841133157
- Produktnummer: 19854682
- Verlag: Hart Pub
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 294 S.
- Masse: H23.1 cm x B15.5 cm x D1.8 cm 454 g
- Gewicht: 454
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Shelley AM Gavigan, BA, LLB (Sask.), MA (Toronto), LLM (Osgoode/York), SJD (Toronto), is Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Canada, and a member of the Bars of Saskatchewan and Ontario.Dorothy E Chunn, MA, PhD (Toronto), is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Feminist Institute for Studies on Law and Society at Simon Fraser University. She is co-editor (with Susan B Boyd & Hester Lessard) of Reaction and Resistance: Feminism, Law, and Social Change (UBC Press, 2007).]
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