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Women and the State: The Shifting Boundaries of Public and Private book cover

1st Edition

Women and the State The Shifting Boundaries of Public and Private

Edited By Anne Showstack Sassoon Copyright 1987
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge
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In the late 1980s, despite the fact that the vast majority of women now had a dual role – in paid work and in the domestic realm – the world of work, the welfare state, and the domestic sphere were all still organized as though women’s place were primarily in the home. Though this contradiction most directly affected women, it had implications for the lives of both sexes, and in a much wider... Read more

Acknowledgements.  List of Contributors.  Introduction  Part 1: The Modern State and Contemporary Society – New Insights and New Contradictions  1. Crazy Quilts: Rethinking the Welfare State Debate from a Woman’s Point of View Laura Balbo  2. Women and the Welfare State: The Transition from Private to Public Dependence Helga Maria Hernes  3. Confusing Concepts – Confusing Reality: A Theoretical Discussion of the Patriarchal State Drude Dahlerup  4. Women and the Advanced Welfare State – A New Kind of Patriarchal Power? Anette Borchorst and Birte Siim  5. Women’s New Social Role: Contradictions of the Welfare State Anne Showstack Sassoon  Part 2: Inside and Outside the Home: Women’s Experience and the Transformation of Public and Private  6. Division of Family Labour and Gender Identity Chiara Saraceno  7. On the Rationality of Caring Kari Waerness  8. The Circular Trap: Women and Part-Time Work Vicki Smith  9. Between Public and Private: The Birth of the Professional Housewife and the Female Consumer Gabriella Turnaturi  10. Inside and Outside the Home: How Our Lives Have Changed through Domestic Automation Hélène Strohl.  Index

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Sassoon, Anne Showstack

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