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Women and the state : the shifting boundaries of public and private / edited by Anne Showstack Sassoon. - London : Routledge, 1987. - 311 p. ; 22 cm. - Contemporary politics . - Contemporary politics. .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Crazy quilts: rethinking the welfare state debate from a woman's point of view / Laura Balbo -- Women and the welfare state: the transition from private to public dependence / Helga Maria Hernes -- Confusing concepts- confusing reality: a theoretical discussion of the patriarchal state / Drude Dahlerup -- Women and the advanced welfare state- a new kind of patriarchal power? / Anette Borchorst and Birte Siim -- Women's new social role: contradictions of the welfare state / Anne Showstack Sassoon -- Division of family labour and gender identity / Chiara Sarceno -- On the rationality of caring / Kari Waerness -- The circular trap: women and part-time work / Vicki Smith -- Between public and private: the birth of the professional housewife and the female consumer / Gabriella Turnaturi -- Inside and outside the home: how our lives have changed through domestic automation / Hélène Strohl.

ISBN: 041507908X

LCCN: 88109090

Nat. Bib. No.: GB87-29910

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women--Government policy.
Women--Social conditions.
Women--Employment.

Subjects--Index Terms: Society Role of women

LC Class. No.: HQ1236 / .W6374 1987

Dewey Class. No.: 305.42

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 3-055.2