Women and Social Policy: A Reader (Women in Society: a Feminist List)

The 1970s and 1980s have seen an explosion of publishing by, about and for women. This new list is designed to make a particular contribution to this process by commissioning and publishing books which consolidate and advance feminist research and debate in key areas in a form suitable for students, academics and researchers but also accessible to a broader general Front Matter....Pages i-x Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction....Pages 3-8 The Introduction of Family Allowances: an Act of Historic Justice?....Pages 9-29 Family Allowance....Pages 30-32 The Wrong Rats....Pages 33-43 Introduction....Pages 44-49 Who Still Cares for the Family? Recent Developments in Income Maintenance....Pages 50-62 The Cohabitation Rule — Why It Makes Sense....Pages 63-74 The Cohabitation Rule....Pages 75-81 Front Matter....Pages 83-83 Introduction....Pages 85-90 A Woman’s Place: a Feminist Approach to Housing in Britain....Pages 91-108 The Women’s Room....Pages 109-111 Housework in a Slum....Pages 112-115 Front Matter....Pages 117-117 Introduction....Pages 119-123 State Policy and Ideology in the Education of Women 1944–1980....Pages 124-136 ‘Just Three Quiet Girls’....Pages 137-145 Front Matter....Pages 147-147 Introduction....Pages 149-153 Women and the Crisis in the National Health Service....Pages 154-160 The Working of the 1967 Abortion Act in Britain....Pages 161-174 Gynaecologist/Woman Interaction....Pages 175-181 Front Matter....Pages 183-183 Introduction....Pages 185-189 Front Matter....Pages 183-183 Patriarchy, Professionalisation and the Semi-Professions....Pages 190-206 Front Matter....Pages 207-207 Introduction....Pages 209-212 ‘Facing the New Challenge’....Pages 213-217 Community Care and the Family: A Case for Equal Opportunities?....Pages 218-242 Women’s Refuges: Creating New Forms of Welfare?....Pages 243-259 Back Matter....Pages 261-278 It is ten years since the first edition of this well-established text was published. The new edition contains an almost entirely new selection of readings, to bring the publication up to date, and to develop themes that are likely to remain topical into the late 1990s and beyond. The sections include: women, citizenship and social security, health and reproduction, housing and the environment, lone parents, Europe, child care, informal care, women's politics, the labour market. Where possible and relevant, much of the material has a comparative (particularly European) perspective. The book is an essential text for students and teachers of social policy and women's studies. ' ... an excellent introduction to a wide range of topics which should whet the appetite for further reading.' Annette Holman, Community Care ' ... brings together an extremely readable and intellectually challenging set of readings and enhances the reader's understanding of them significantly by a set of excellent introductions.' Peggy Foster Journal of Social Policy This edition contains a new selection of readings on women and social policy to bring the publication up-to-date and to develop themes that are likely to remain topical into the late 1990s and beyond. The book should be of interest to students and teachers of social policy and women's studies.