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Format: 1 online resource (232 pages) : , illustrations.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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ISBN: 9780812202472

Content: Western Welfare in Decline explores the plight of poor single mothers in five English-speaking countries that have implemented welfare restructuring: the United States, Canada, Britain, and New Zealand.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , 1. Introduction: The Global Feminization of Poverty / , 2. Neoliberalism 1: Discourses of Personhood and Welfare Reform / , 3. Neoliberalism II: The Global Free Market / , 4. Globalization as Hybridity / , 5. From New Deal to Bad Deal: Racial and Political Implications of U.S. Welfare Reform / , 6. The Great Undoing: State Formation, Gender Politics, and Social Policy in Canada / , 7. The Responsible Citizen: Creating a New British Welfare Contract / , 8. Paradoxes in "Paradise": The Changing Politics of Women, Welfare, and Work in Australia / , 9. Neoliberalisrn and Tino Rangatiratanga: Welfare State Restructuring in Aotearoa/New Zealand / , 10. Where to Next? Against and Beyond Neoliberalisrn / , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Contributors -- , Index -- , Acknowledgments. , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.9783/9780812202472

URL: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812202472

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Format: 1 online resource (226 pages)

ISBN: 9780812202472

Content: Western Welfare in Decline explores the plight of poor single mothers in five English-speaking countries that have implemented welfare restructuring: the United States, Canada, Britain, and New Zealand.

Content: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Part I: The Big Picture: Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Feminization of Poverty -- 1 Introduction: The Global Feminization of Poverty -- 2 Neoliberalism I: Discourses of Personhood and Welfare Reform -- 3 Neoliberalism II: The Global Free Market -- 4 Globalization as Hybridity -- Part II: On the Ground: Case Studies in the Articulation of (Gendered) Neoliberalism with (Gendered) Local Culture -- 5 From New Deal to Bad Deal: Racial and Political Implications of U.S. Welfare Reform -- 6 The Great Undoing: State Formation, Gender Politics, and Social Policy in Canada -- 7 The Responsible Citizen: Creating a New British Welfare Contract -- 8 Paradoxes in "Paradise": The Changing Politics of Women, Welfare, and Work in Australia -- 9 Neoliberalisrn and Tino Rangatiratanga: Welfare State Restructuring in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- 10 Where to Next? Against and Beyond Neoliberalisrn -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9780812218121

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780812218121

Language: English

URL: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3442240

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 216 S.).

ISBN: 0-8122-3668-8 , 0-8122-1812-4 , 978-0-8122-0247-2

Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-210) and index

Language: English

Keywords: Wohlfahrtsstaat ; Sozialpolitik ; Aufsatzsammlung

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