Child care policy at the crossroads : gender and welfare state restructuring
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Child care policy at the crossroads : gender and welfare state restructuring
Routledge, 2002
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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