Changing Relations of Welfare

Janet Fink is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at The Open University, UK and Ã…sa Lundqvist is Associate Professor at the Centre for Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden

'This book brings a new dimension to the feminist analysis of family policies by introducing the issues of race and ethnicity. Viewing family policies in the UK and Scandinavia across time and from a transnational perspective, it exposes not only the gendered but also the racialized assumptions embodied in supposedly neutral and universal measures. Changing Relations of Welfare is essential reading for all those seeking to understand the politics of social policy in an era of globalization.' Sonya Michel, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, USA 'Despite being written by different authors with different disciplinary backgrounds, the book succeeds to compare the welfare regimes of Britain, Denmark, and Sweden in a relatively short number of pages... This is an important contribution at a time when efforts toward European Union integration have led to a growing interest in comparative studies that assess different welfare models within the Union... this book provides an innovative way of understanding welfare states more generally, and their corresponding gender and migration regimes. This, in my view, is a true achievement, and I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in gender, family, or migration studies, as well as those with a more general interest in welfare states.' Nordic Journal of Migration Research

• Chapter 1 Introduction, Janet Fink, Åsa Lundqvist; Part I Family, Gender Relations and the Welfare State; Chapter 2 Overshadowed by the Male Breadwinner: Care in 20th Century Britain, Hilary Land; Chapter 3 Competing Meanings of Gender Equality: Family, Marriage and Tax Law in 20th Century Denmark, Anna-Birte Ravn, Bente Rosenbeck; Chapter 4 The Institutionalization of Family and Gender Equality Policies in the Swedish Welfare State, Åsa Lundqvist, Christine Roman; Chapter 5 Paradoxes of Gender and Marital Status in mid-20th Century British Welfare, Janet Fink, Katherine Holden; Part II Gender, Migration and Social Inequalities; Chapter 6 Migration, Family and British Social Policy in the Late 20th Century: British Pakistani Perspectives, Kaveri Harriss, Alison Shaw; Chapter 7 The Multicultural Challenge to the Danish Welfare State: Tensions between Gender Equality and Diversity, Birte Siim, Anette Borchorst; Chapter 8 Postcolonial Encounters: Migrant Women and Swedish Midwives, Diana Mulinari; Chapter 9 Afterword, Janet Fink, Åsa Lundqvist;