Synopses & Reviews
This book compares gender, social equality and welfare issues in Britain and Germany.
Review
"I provides an excellent account od theorectial developments on the conceptualization of the welfare state, and the methodologies employed to study welfare states...Overall, The Gender Division of Welfare advances theory and analysis, and can be highly recommended. Given its focus...The book offers an engaging account and evaluation of two welfare regime types and the effect of cash transfer and taxation systems and policies on the economic situation of men and women" Contemporary Sociology"...this book provides an excellent starting point for bringing gender and family to the center of economic and political analysis." American Journal of Sociology"This book will be of interest to welfare state scholars seeking recent and well-informed observations from the feminist perspective" Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Dec 2001
Synopsis
This ambitious new study raises interesting and important questions about the relationship between welfare states, gender and social inequality. It examines the British and German welfare states, showing that both countries differ markedly in the measures they have instituted in various areas.
Table of Contents
PART 1 CONCEPTUALISING THE RELATIONS BETWEEN GENDER AND THE WELFARE STATE 1 Theory on the welfare state: the place of gender?; 2 A framework for analysing the gender dimension of welfare states; PART 2 KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF THE BRITISH AND GERMAN WELFARE STATES 3 The British and German welfare states and the support of family and gender relations; 4 Sex, gender and the distributive principles of cash transfer systems; PART 3 GENDER AND THE IMPACT OF THE BRITISH AND GERMAN WELFARE STATES 5 Income inequality and resource-based relations; 6 Sex, gender and poverty; 7 Marriage, financial relations and women's economic risks; 8 Welfare states and gender divisions.