Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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An important contribution to the current literature on gender and social politics, this book challenges mainstream thinking on welfare states, citizenship, family, work, and social policy. Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics 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 topics that include citizenship, social exclusion and inclusion, care, social capital 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 engaged with these issues, and assess how these contested concepts can improve understanding both of the position of women and of gender relations more broadly.This is the first major transnational attempt to address the conceptual basis for current work in the field of social policy and social politics from both a feminist and genuinely comparative viewpoint. As such it will be invaluable to undergraduate and graduate students of social policy, politics and sociology.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2004-03-25
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781843768449

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Contents: 1. Introduction: Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics Barbara Hobson, Jane Lewis and Birte Siim2. Citizenship Barbara Hobson and Ruth Lister3. Care: Actors, Relationships and Contexts Arnlaug Leira and Chiara Saraceno4. Social Exclusion and Gender Relations Mary Daly and Chiara Saraceno5. Contractualization Ute Gerhard, Trudie Knijn and Jane Lewis6. Commodification and De-commodification Trudie Knijn and Ilona Ostner7. Representation, Agency and Empowerment Bérengére Marques-Pereira and Birte Siim8. Social Capital – An Emerging Concept Dietland Stolle with Jane LewisIndex

'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.'