TY  - BOOK
AU  - Michel,Sonya
AU  - Mahon,Rianne
TI  - Child care policy at the crossroads: gender and welfare state restructuring 
SN  - 0415927056
AV  - HQ778 C535 2002
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Child care
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Sex discrimination against women
KW  - Family policy
KW  - Welfare state
N1  - 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; 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; YT2025 M09
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