Western welfare in decline : globalization and women's poverty

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The feminization of poverty is increasingly recognized as a global phenomenon, affecting women not only in third world countries but also in the West. Taking globalization as its starting point, Western Welfare in Decline explores the plight of poor single mothers in five English-speaking nations th...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Kingfisher, Catherine Pélissier
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002
Subjects:
Public welfare.
Social policy.
Poor women > Government policy.
Welfare recipients > Government policy.
Public Policy
welfare services.
public policy.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : The global feminization of poverty ; Neoliberalism I : discourses of personhood and welfare reform ; Neoliberalism II : the global free market ; Globalization as hybridity / Catherine Kingfisher
  • From New Deal to bad deal : racial and political implications of U.S. welfare reform / Judith Goode
  • The great undoing : state formation, gender politics, and social policy in Canada / Janine Brodie
  • The responsible citizen : creating a new British welfare contract / Ruth Lister
  • Paradoxes in "paradise" : the changing politics of women, welfare, and work in Australia / Susan L. Robertson
  • Neoliberalism and 'tino rangatiratanga' : welfare state restructuring in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Wendy Larner
  • Where to next? Against and beyond neoliberalism / Catherine Kingfisher.

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