Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843768445 ISBN 13: 9781843768449

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004

Synopsis

An important contribution to the current literature on gender and social politics, this book challenges mainstream thinking on welfare states, citizenship, family, work, and social policy. Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics analyses the corresponding shifts in political discourse, and the changes in socio-political configurations that mirror changing gender relations.

The discussion is both international and interdisciplinary, and focuses on topics that include citizenship, social exclusion and inclusion, care, social capital and representation, amongst others. The contributors examine these issues in relation to current policy debates and consider how they are embedded in particular European intellectual traditions. They also explore how feminist scholarship has engaged with these issues, and assess how these contested concepts can improve understanding both of the position of women and of gender relations more broadly.

This is the first major transnational attempt to address the conceptual basis for current work in the field of social policy and social politics from both a feminist and genuinely comparative viewpoint. As such it will be invaluable to undergraduate and graduate students of social policy, politics and sociology.

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About the Author

Edited by Barbara Hobson, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, Sweden, Jane Lewis, formerly Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics, UK and Birte Siim, Emeritus Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University, Denmark

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1843768445
• ISBN 13: 9781843768449
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Hobson Barbara, Lewis Jane, Siim Birte