States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States

by Julia S. O'Connor , Ann Shola Orloff , Sheila Shaver

• ISBN13: 9780521630924
• ISBN10: 0521630924
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The 1990s have seen dramatic restructuring of state social provision in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia. This has occurred largely because of the rise of market liberalism, which challenges the role of the state. This important book examines the impact of changes in social policy regimes on gender roles and relations. Structured thematically and systematically comparative, it analyses three key policy areas: labor markets, income maintenance and reproductive rights. Largely driven by issues of equality, it considers the role of the state as a site for gender and sexual politics at a time when primacy is given to the market, developing an argument about social citizenship in the process. Eminent scholars in the field, Julia O'Connor, Ann Orloff and Sheila Shaver make a landmark contribution to debates about social policy and gender relations in this era of economic restructuring and deregulation.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vi	(1)
Acknowledgements	vii
1 Gendering Theories and Comparisons of Welfare States	1	(42)
2 Liberalism, Gender and Social Policy	43	(23)
3 The Labour Market and Social Policy	66	(43)
4 Social Rights Versus Gender Stratification and Gender Power?	109	(48)
5 Body Rights, Social Rights and Reproductive Choice	157	(29)
6 Liberalism, Gendered Policy Logics and Mobilisation	186	(37)
7 States, Markets, Families	223	(15)
References	238	(28)
Index	266