Michel / Mahon Child Care Policy at the Crossroads

Gender and Welfare State Restructuring
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-69397-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

Whether childcare is seen as part of society's educational policy, welfare policy, or employment policy affects not only its form and content but also its public image. The contributors in this volume use current polices for the care of infants and preschool children to analyze debates and track the emergence of new state welfare practices across a variety of social and political configurations-and offer some conclusions about which methods work the best.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Michel, Sonya

Mahon, Rianne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Gender and Welfare State Restructuring: Through the Lens of Child Care, Rianne Mahon
I. The Consequences of Weak Feminism
1. Gender and Generation: Japanese Child Care and the Demographic Crisis, Ito Peng
2. The Value of an Educational Emphasis: Child Care and Restructuring in Spain since 1975, Celia Valiente
3. Ideology, Economics and the Politics of Child Care in Poland before and After the Transition, Jacqueline Heinen
II. The Power of "Choice"
4. Australia: Child Care and State-Centered Feminism in a Liberal Welfare Regime, Deborah Brennan
5. The Illusion of Free Choice: Ideals of Care and Child Care Policy in the Flemish and Dutch Welfare States, Monique Kremer
6. Does Anyone Have a "Libre Choix"?: Subversive Liberalism and the Politics of French Child Care Policy, Kimberly Morgan
III. The Impact of Neoliberalism
7. "Modernization" and Welfare-State Restructuring in Italy: The Impact on Child Care, Vincent Della Sala
8. Dual-Earner Families Caught in a Liberal Welfare Regime? The Politics of Child Care Policy in Canada, Rianne Mahon and Susan Phillips
9. Child Care in Britain, or, How Do You Restructure Nothing?, Vicky Randall
10. More Can Be Less: Child Care and Welfare Reform in the United Stated, Denise Urias Levy and Sonya Michel
IV. Preserving/Creating Universalism
11. Danish Child Care Policy: Continuity Rather than Radical Change, Anette Borchorst
12. Alive and Fairly Well: Welfare State Restructuring and Child Care in Sweden, Christina Berqvist and Anita Nyberg
13. Against the Current: Child Care and Family Policy in Quebec, Jane Jenson
Afterword, Sonya Michel
Notes On Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sonya Michel is Associate Professor of History and the Director of Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author or editor of seven books including: Children's Interests/Mother's Rights and Mothers of a New World. Rianne Mahon is Professor of Public Administration and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at Carleton University.