Handbook on Gender and Social Policy

Contents:

1. Introduction to the Handbook on Gender and Social Policy
Sheila Shaver

Part I Perspectives
2. Gender, social policy and the idea of the welfare state
Anna Yeatman

3. Intersectionality, gender and social policy
Fiona Williams

4. Men, masculinities and social policy
Jeff Hearn, Keith Pringle and Dag Balkmar

5. Rethinking social policy: A gender perspective from the developing world
Shahra Razavi and Silke Staab

6. Policy reforms on prostitution: The quest for control
Joyce Outshoorn

Part II Inequalities in work and care
7. Gender and economic inequality
Susan Harkness

8. Gender, employment and social policy
Jill Rubery and Hugo Figueiredo

9. Family policies and the weakening of the male-breadwinner model
Rosa Daiger von Gleichen and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

10. Transmitting inequality: Pensions policy and the gendered life course
Liam Foster and Jay Ginn

11. Social investment, poverty and lone parents
Jane Jenson

12. Care policies for children and adults in high-income countries
Mary Daly

13. Care policies in the South
Valeria Esquivel

14. Care and migration
Deborah Brennan and Elizabeth Adamson

15. Shaping the way international organizations 'see' gender equality: The OECD and ECLAC
Rianne Mahon

Part III Family policy
16. Making and unmaking families
Belinda Hewitt and Michelle Brady

17. The movement towards marriage equality in advanced industrialized countries
Mary Bernstein and Brenna Harvey

18. Women, domestic violence and child protection
Silke Meyer

Part IV Case studies, countries and regions
19. Gender policy in the Netherlands: From a redistributive to an identity-based approach
Trudie Knijn

20. An overview of research on gender and social policy in Spain
Celia Valiente

21. Norway: The evolution of a Nordic earner-carer model
Anne Lise Ellingsaeter

22. Social policy in the United States
Ellen Reese, Logan Marg and Julisa McCoy

23. A long decade of gendering social policy in Latin America: Transformative steps and inequality traps
Camila Arza and Juliana Martinez Franzoni

24. Women and care in China
Megan Blaxland, Xiaoyuan Shang and Karen R. Fisher

Index

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• Os estudos de gênero, grupos de gênero
• Políticas da governo central
• As questões sociais e processos
• Assistência social e serviços sociais

Gender; social policy; social inequality; family policy; reconciliation of work and family; care