Handbook on Gender and Social Policy

Edited by Sheila Shaver, Professor of Social Policy, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia

'This superb and comprehensive Handbook should be in the collection of every student of social policy - those who have specialized in gender issues and everyone else - for a key strength of the collection is the engagement across the multiple theoretical and empirical traditions of comparative welfare state research. The authors, a mix of leading scholars and emerging researchers, offer incisive and well-written analyses of classic and cutting-edge topics. Feminist theory and analysis come alive in their investigations of freedom, equality and the welfare state, care, intersectionality, transnational policy influences, the transformations of family policy, and more, across the globe. The Handbook is an excellent text for advanced undergraduate and graduate social policy courses, and an outstanding reference work for established analysts.'--Ann Shola Orloff, Northwestern University, US'Bringing together some of the most renowned scholars in the field, this Handbook provides a multi-dimensional lens for understanding the developments and challenges posed by heterogeneity across regions, gender diversities and growing social inequalities for conceptualizing gender and social policy and the potential for making change. It engages with conceptual terrains that have transformed gender and social policy research: intersectionality and multiple inequalities, men and masculinities, and transnationalisms. The prodigious scope and breadth of this volume encompasses the Global North and South and transnational institutions and actors in an array of rich empirical chapters, both comparative and in-depth case studies, addressing themes from various theoretical perspectives, including employment, care, family, poverty, prostitution policies and LGBT rights.'--Barbara Hobson, Institute for Advanced Study, Germany'This is a sparkling and absorbing collection. The Handbook provides both case studies of specific countries and overviews of key policy areas, including employment, care, family policy, child protection, migration - and much more. The chapters and authors have been well selected to thoroughly cover the concepts and ideas that have informed feminist scholarship on social policy; to introduce cutting-edge current research across a wide range of countries; and to provide a springboard for the next generation of research.'--Jane Millar, University of Bath, UK and Chair of the UK Social Policy Association

• Contents:1. Introduction to the Handbook on Gender and Social PolicySheila ShaverPart I Perspectives2. Gender, social policy and the idea of the welfare stateAnna Yeatman3. Intersectionality, gender and social policyFiona Williams4. Men, masculinities and social policyJeff Hearn, Keith Pringle and Dag Balkmar5. Rethinking social policy: A gender perspective from the developing worldShahra Razavi and Silke Staab6. Policy reforms on prostitution: The quest for controlJoyce OutshoornPart II Inequalities in work and care7. Gender and economic inequalitySusan Harkness8. Gender, employment and social policyJill Rubery and Hugo Figueiredo9. Family policies and the weakening of the male-breadwinner modelRosa Daiger von Gleichen and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser10. Transmitting inequality: Pensions policy and the gendered life course Liam Foster and Jay Ginn11. Social investment, poverty and lone parentsJane Jenson12. Care policies for children and adults in high-income countriesMary Daly13. Care policies in the SouthValeria Esquivel14. Care and migrationDeborah Brennan and Elizabeth Adamson15. Shaping the way international organizations ‘see’ gender equality: The OECD and ECLACRianne MahonPart III Family policy16. Making and unmaking familiesBelinda Hewitt and Michelle Brady17. The movement towards marriage equality in advanced industrialized countriesMary Bernstein and Brenna Harvey18. Women, domestic violence and child protectionSilke MeyerPart IV Case studies, countries and regions19. Gender policy in the Netherlands: From a redistributive to an identity-based approachTrudie Knijn20. An overview of research on gender and social policy in SpainCelia Valiente21. Norway: The evolution of a Nordic earner–carer modelAnne Lise Ellingsæter22. Social policy in the United StatesEllen Reese, Logan Marg and Julisa McCoy23. A long decade of gendering social policy in Latin America: Transformative steps and inequality traps Camila Arza and Juliana Martínez Franzoni24. Women and care in ChinaMegan Blaxland, Xiaoyuan Shang and Karen R. FisherIndex