The welfare, law, and the regulation of women's poverty Gavigan, Shelley A. M. Chunn, Dorothy E. text bibliography enk Oxford Portland, Or Hart 2010 monographic eng

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294 p. : ill., 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 -- 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 -- 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 intrusions : 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 -- Substantive universality : reconceptualizing feminist approaches to social provision and child care / Hester Lessard ; Women's work and a guaranteed income / Margot Young. HKBU library edited by Shelley AM Gavigan and Dorothy E Chunn. Women Social conditions Women Legal status, laws, etc Poor women Legal status, laws, etc Public welfare Income maintenance programs Neoliberalism HV1444 L496 2010 9781841133140 1841133140 9781841133157 1841133159 SDU 100520