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Women and the state : the shifting boundaries of public and private / edited by Anne Showstack Sassoon.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary politicsPublication details: London : Routledge, 1987.Description: 311 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 041507908X
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Women and the state.DDC classification:
  • 305.42 20
LOC classification:
  • HQ1236 .W6374 1987
Other classification:
  • 89.40
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status
Non-fiction Main Non Fiction BEH CE Sas (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available

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.