Women and the state : the shifting boundaries of public and private / edited by Anne Showstack Sassoon.
Contributor(s): Sassoon, Anne Showstack.
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Unwin Hyman, 1987 (1989[printing])Description: 311 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0044456727 .Subject(s): Women -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 305.42Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the personal and the intellectual, fragments and order, international trends and national specificities -- Part one: The modern state and contemporary society-new insights and new contradictions -- 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 -- Part two: Inside and outside the home: Women's experience and the transformation of public and private -- Division of family labour and gender identity / Chiara Saraceno -- 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 / Helene Strohl.