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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455244403321

Autore

Wilson Elizabeth <1936, >

Titolo

Women & the welfare state / / Elizabeth Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Tavistock Publications, , 1977

ISBN

1-135-80075-8

1-280-31646-2

0-203-47926-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Tavistock women's studies

Disciplina

300

361/.941

362.8

Soggetti

Women - Great Britain - History

Public welfare - Great Britain

Welfare state

Women and socialism

Socialism - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Ideology  welfare; Women, social welfare,  social work in Victorian society; Women  the family since the Second World War; Welfare since the War; Welfare in the twentieth century; Welfare  war; Women  welfare: past  future; References; Subject Index; Author Index

Sommario/riassunto

Women and the Welfare State approaches the question of welfare policy from an entirely fresh perspective. In it the author argues that an appreciation of the way in which women are defined by welfare policies, and have been since the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution, is essential to a true understanding of the nature of those policies and of the Welfare State. An important, possible the most important, function of welfare policy has been to promote and retain a particular form of the family; indeed, one can define the Welfare State as the State organization of domestic life.