Women and Social Policy: A Reader (Women in Society: A Feminist List, 9)

It is ten years since the first edition of this well-established text was published. The second 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. 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. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction to the Second Edition....Pages 1-4 Front Matter....Pages 5-12 Tracing the Contours of Women’s Citizenship....Pages 13-24 Equality, Difference and State Welfare: Labour Market and Family Policies in Sweden....Pages 25-40 Front Matter....Pages 49-56 Women in the Labour Market: Policy and Perspective....Pages 57-71 Part-time Employment and Labour Market Policies....Pages 72-84 Women and ‘1992’: Integration or Segmentation?....Pages 85-102 Front Matter....Pages 109-115 Government Policy....Pages 116-118 Locational Issues in Child Care Provision....Pages 119-123 Social Support for Families....Pages 124-130 Families in Dreamland....Pages 131-136 Front Matter....Pages 139-145 State, Family and Personal Responsibility: The Changing Balance for Lone Mothers in the UK....Pages 146-162 The Relative Prosperity of French One-parent Families....Pages 163-173 Front Matter....Pages 179-186 Finding a Home....Pages 187-202 Gender, House and ‘Home’: Social Meanings and Domestic Architecture in Britain....Pages 203-214 Safer Cities for Women....Pages 215-223 Front Matter....Pages 231-237 Just Three Quiet Girls....Pages 238-246 A Gender Agenda....Pages 247-253 The New School Governing Bodies — Are Gender and Race on the Agenda?....Pages 254-265 Can the Barriers be Breached? Mature Women’s Access to Higher Education....Pages 266-271 Access and Assets: the Experience of Mature Mother Students in Higher Education....Pages 272-276 Front Matter....Pages 279-285 Maternity Services....Pages 286-289 Women and Private Medicine....Pages 290-307 The New Reproductive Technology: Problem or Solution?....Pages 308-312 Front Matter....Pages 317-322 Who Cares? Women in the Mixed Economy of Care....Pages 323-328 Women Caring for People: The Mismatch between Rhetoric and Women’s Reality?....Pages 329-336 Front Matter....Pages 341-346 Informal Care-givers for Elderly People....Pages 347-358 Feminist Research and Informal Care....Pages 359-368 Payment for Caring — Mapping a Territory....Pages 369-379 Back Matter....Pages 385-397 Disfigured at birth, Aleth was marked for death in a too perfect shifter race. He survived unbeknownst to his father, until his remarkable power was brought to light. Aleth was used by the invading Xakarrian Army to overthrow his own people. After years of abuse, Aleth held no love for his fellow shifters, but even so, the guilt of what hed been forced to do weighed on him. When his brother Agarri learns of his existence, Agarri sends a trio of Kannomite warriors to save Aleth. The hand-picked warriors know a thing or two about being different and Agarri hopes they can understand his brothers pain and possible offer him the love hes lacked for so long. From the moment the triad meets Aleth, they cant resist him, knowing hes their fated mate. Years of loneliness tempt Aleth once in their hands, but he fears what the future holds. Theres a war waged around them and the forgotten prince is the key to one sides victorythe triad must not fail. 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. Edited By Clare Ungerson And Mary Kember. Originally Published: 1985. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.