1st Edition
Women, Vulnerabilities and Welfare Service Systems
1 Introduction: women, vulnerabilities and welfare service systems
Marjo Kuronen and Elina Virokannas
PART 1 Welfare service systems (not) responding to vulnerable situations of women
2 Vulnerability as lived experience: marginalised women and girls in the UK
Kate Brown, Katie Ellis and Kate Smith
3 Finnish welfare service system from the standpoint of women in vulnerable life situations
Elina Virokannas, Ulla Salovaara, Suvi Krok and Marjo Kuronen
4 Interpreting vulnerabilities facing women in urban life: a case study in Madrid, Spain
M. Victoria Gómez and Marjo Kuronen
5 Risky mothers: state-family relations, risk and the gendered reproduction of vulnerability in Canadian child welfare
Mandi Veenstra
PART 2 Women’s encounters with the welfare service system
6 The right to have a child: an institutional response to the motherhood of drug users in Slovenia
Vesna Mejak and Vesna Leskošek
7 Incarcerated women, welfare services and the process of re-entering society in Finland
Ulla Salovaara
8 The reform of the Finnish income benefit system from the standpoint of lone mothers
Suvi Krok
9 Social framework for understanding women´s substance abuse, treatment and vulnerability
Teija Karttunen
PART 3 Contradictions of informal support
10 Low-income breadwinning Israeli mothers negotiating economic survival: the exchange of sex for material resources
Einat Lavee
11 Vulnerability and agency: women after prison in the Basque Autonomous Community, Spain
Estibaliz de Miguel-Calvo
12 Peer support among female substance users in Finland
Elina Virokannas
13 Concluding remarks: a need for women-specific services
Marjo Kuronen and Ulla Salovaara
Biography
Marjo Kuronen is a Professor of Social Work at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Elina Virokannas is a University Lecturer at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Ulla Salovaara is a Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
