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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453556603321

Titolo

Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia : The limits of political ambition? / / edited by Kari Melby, Anna-Birte Ravn and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Portland, OR : , : Policy Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-281-79410-4

9786611794101

1-84742-341-8

Edizione

[Pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WetterbergChristina Carlsson <1950->

RavnAnna-Birte

MelbyKari

Disciplina

305.40948

361.610820948

Soggetti

Social policy

Sex discrimination

Gender mainstreaming

Family policy

Equality

Sex discrimination - Scandinavia

Equality - Scandinavia

Gender mainstreaming - Scandinavia

Family policy - Scandinavia

Electronic books.

Scandinavia

Scandinavia Social policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A Nordic model of gender equality? Introduction / Kari Melby, Anna-Birte Ravn and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg -- pt. 1. Meanings of gender equality in Scandinavian welfare policy. Woman-friendly policy



paradoxes? Childcare policies and gender equality visions in Scandinavia / Anette Borchorst -- The claim of economic citizenship : the concept of equality in a historical context / Christina Carlsson Wetterberg and Kari Melby -- Married women's right to pay taxes : debates on gender, economic citizenship and tax law reform in Denmark, 1945-83 / Anna-Birte Ravn -- Family policy between science and politics / Åsa Lundqvist -- Academic discourse, social policy and the construction of new families / Christine Roman -- pt. 2. Current challenges : competing discourses on gender equality. The 'new father' : gender equality as discursive resource for family policies / Trine Annfelt -- From powerful to powerless fathers : gender equality in Danish family policies on parenthood / Charlotte Andersen and Anna-Birte Ravn -- Dilemmas on citizenship : tensions between gender equality and cultural diversity in the Danish welfare state / Birte Siim -- Women friendly? Understanding gendered racism in Sweden / Diana Mulinari -- Young women's attitudes towards feminism and gender equality / Ann-Dorte Christensen -- A Scandinavian feminist public sphere : discourses on feminism and gender equality / Christina Fiig -- Gender, citizenship and social justice in the Nordic welfare states : a view from the outside / Ruth Lister -- Future research on gender equality in the Scandinavian countries / Keith Pringle.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the meanings of gender that underpin policies in the Scandinavian welfare states, historically and today, and raises the question whether the hallmark of the Scandinavian welfare model is a special combination of gender equality and gender differentiation.