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Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics

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This text challenges mainstream thinking on welfare states, citizenship, family, work and social policy. It analyses the corresponding shifts in political discourse, and the changes in socio-political configurations that mirror changing gender relations. The discussion is both international and interdisciplinary, and focuses on exclusion and inclusion, care, civil society and representation, amongst others. The contributors examine these issues in relation to current policy debates and consider how they are embedded in particular European intellectual traditions. They also explore how feminist scholarship has emerged with these issues, and assess how these contested concepts can improve understanding both of the position of women and of gender relations more broadly.

Table of Contents:
Contents: 1. Introduction: Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics Barbara Hobson, Jane Lewis and Birte Siim 2. Citizenship Barbara Hobson and Ruth Lister 3. Care: Actors, Relationships and Contexts Arnlaug Leira and Chiara Saraceno 4. Social Exclusion and Gender Relations Mary Daly and Chiara Saraceno 5. Contractualization Ute Gerhard, Trudie Knijn and Jane Lewis 6. Commodification and De-commodification Trudie Knijn and Ilona Ostner 7. Representation, Agency and Empowerment Bérengére Marques-Pereira and Birte Siim 8. Social Capital – An Emerging Concept Dietland Stolle with Jane Lewis Index

About the Author :
Edited by Barbara Hobson, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, Sweden, Jane Lewis, formerly Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics, UK and Birte Siim, Professor Emerita, Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University, Denmark

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'Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics is a significant new book. The authors take seven key concepts - care, citizenship, social exclusion, contractualism, de-commodification, representation, social capital - and explore these through a gendered lens. They examine how these concepts have developed over time and locate them within different national contexts and policy debates. This is a major contribution to the theoretical and comparative literature on welfare states, written by some of the most original and challenging feminist theorists of social policy.'


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781840644579
  • Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • ISBN-10: 1840644575
  • Publisher Date: 29 Jul 2002
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Width: 156 mm


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