gender and welfare state restructuring Michel, Sonya 1942- Mahon, Rianne 1948- text bibliography conference publication nyu New York Routledge 2002 monographic eng

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352 p. : ill. Machine generated contents note: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. vii -- INTRODUCTION. 1 -- Gender andWelfare State Restructuring: -- Through the Lens of Child Care. -- Rianne Mahon --Part 1. The Consequences of Weak Feminism -- CHAPTER 1. 31 -- Gender and Generation: Japanese Child Care and the Demographic Crisis. -- Ito Peng -- CHAPTER 2. 57 -- The Value of an Educational Emphasis: Child Care and Restructuring in Spain since 1975. -- Celia Valiente -- CHAPTER 3. 71 -- Ideology, Economics, and the Politics of Child Care in Poland before and after the Transition. -- Jacqueline Heinen Translated by Elizabeth Blount --Part 2. The Power of "Choice" -- CHAPTER 4. 95 -- Australia: Child Care and State-Centered Feminism in a Liberal Welfare Regime. -- Deborah Brennan -- CHAPTER 5. 113 -- The Illusion of Free Choice: Ideals of Care and Child Care Policy in the Flemish and Dutch Welfare States. -- Monique Kremer -- CHAPTER 6. 143 -- Does Anyone Have a "Libre Choix"? -- Subversive Liberalism and the Politics of French Child Care Policy. -- Kimberly Morgan -- Part 3. The Impact of Neoliberalism -- CHAPTER 7. 171 -- "Modernization" and Welfare-State Restructuring in Italy: The Impact on Child Care. -- Vincent Della Sala -- CHAPTER 8. 191 -- Dual-Earner Families Caught in a Liberal Welfare Regime? -- The Politics of Child Care Policy in Canada. -- Rianne Mahon and Susan Phillips -- CHAPTER 9. 219 -- Child Care in Britain, or, How DoYou Restructure Nothing? -- Vicky Randall -- CHAPTER 10. 239 -- More Can Be Less: Child Care and Welfare Reform in the United States. -- Denise Urias Levy and Sonya Michel --Part 4. Preserving/Creating Universalism --CHAPTER 11. 267 -- Danish Child Care Policy: Continuity Rather than Radical Change. -- Anette Borchorst -- CHAPTER 12. 287 -- Welfare State Restructuring and Child Care in Sweden. -- Christina Bergqvist and Anita Nyberg -- CHAPTER 13. 309 -- Against the Current: Child Care and Family Policy in Quebec. -- Jane Jenson --AFTERWORD. 333 -- Dilemmas of Child Care. -- Sonya Michel -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 339 -- INDEX 343. HKBU library edited by Sonya Michel and Rianne Mahon. Papers from a 1999 workshop organized by and held at the Belle van Zuylen Institute for Multicultural and Comparative Gender Studies at the University of Amsterdam. YT2025 M09 Child care Government policy Sex discrimination against women Family policy Welfare state HQ778 C535 2002 0415927056 SDU 010607