Full Description
First published in 2002. Social critics, policy makers, and the public in general frequently overlook the crucial status of women as the main recipients of welfare and as providers of paid and unpaid care. The eight original essays in this collection remedy this situation. By comparing welfare policy in advanced industrial countries and the welfare experiences of different populations of women--black or white, young and old--with that of the male experience, Sylvia Bashevkin and her contributors challenge the Moynihan report; the conservative fatherhood movement; and neoliberal philosophy, politics and practice. Women's Work is Never Done adds a new dimension to the important public discussion of women's status as citizens, disparities in welfare reform, and poverty in a globalized world.
Contents
Introduction, Sylvia Bashevkin; Part I Conceptual Issues; Chapter 1 Normative Concepts in Dutch Policies on Work and Care, Selma Sevenhuijsen; Part II Confronting Women's Diversity; Chapter 2 It's No Longer Just about Race, Dionne Bensonsmith; Chapter 3 Paying for Caring, Jane Jenson; Part III Anglo-American Welfare Reform; Chapter 4 Poverty, Social Assistance, and the Employability of Mothers in Four Commonwealth Countries, Maureen Baker; Chapter 5 Road-Testing the Third Way, Sylvia Bashevkin; Part IV Policy Alternatives; Chapter 6 Violating Women, Gwendolyn Mink; Chapter 7 Mandatory "Marriage" or Obligatory Waged Work, Leah F. Vosko;
