Shahra Razavi is Senior Researcher at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). She specializes in the gender dimensions of social development, with a particular focus on livelihoods and social policy. Her recent books include The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization: Towards "Embedded Liberalism"? (2009) and Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context: Uncovering the Gendered Structure of 'the Social', edited with Shireen Hassim (2006).

• Notes on Contributors vii 1 Rethinking Care in a Development Context: An Introduction 1Shahra Razavi2 The Good, the Bad and the Confusing: The Political Economy of Social Care Expansion in South Korea 31Ito Peng3 South Africa: A Legacy of Family Disruption 51Debbie Budlender and Francie Lund4 Harsh Choices: Chinese Women’s Paid Work and Unpaid Care Responsibilities under Economic Reform 73Sarah Cook and Xiao-yuan Dong5 AWidening Gap? The Political and Social Organization of Childcare in Argentina 93Eleonor Faur6 Who Cares in Nicaragua? A Care Regime in an Exclusionary Social Policy Context 121Juliana Martínez Franzoni and Koen Voorend7 A Perfect Storm?Welfare, Care, Gender and Generations in Uruguay 149Fernando Filgueira, Magdalena Guti´errez and Jorge Papadópulos8 Stratified Familialism: The Care Regime in India through the Lens of Childcare 175Rajni Palriwala and Neetha N.9 Putting Two and Two Together? Early Childhood Education, Mothers’ Employment and Care Service Expansion in Chile and Mexico 205Silke Staab and Roberto Gerhard10 Going Global: The Transnationalization of Care 233Nicola YeatesIndex 255

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