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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819118003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, UK : , : Policy Press, , 2008

ISBN

1-281-79410-4

9786611794101

1-84742-341-8

Edizione

[Pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 244 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

305.40948

Soggetti

Family policy - Scandinavia

Sex discrimination - Scandinavia

Equality - Scandinavia

Gender mainstreaming - Scandinavia

Scandinavia Social policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Jan 2022).

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 -- 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 -- 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.