Gendering the state in the age of globalization : : women's movements and state feminism in postindustrial democracies / / edited by Melissa Haussman and Birgit Sauer.

• TeilnehmendeR: Haussman, Melissa, 1959-; Sauer, Birgit,
• Place / Publishing House: Lanham : : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,, [2007]; 2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (403 pages) :; illustrations

Table of Contents

• Introduction : Women's movements and state restructuring in the 1990s / Melissa Haussman and Birgit Sauer
• Re-evaluating the "heart of society" : family policy in Austria / Birgit Sauer
• Feminism and indigenous rights in Australia in the 1990s / Barbara Sullivan
• Speedy Belgians : the new Nationality Law of 2000 and the impact of the women's movement / Alison E. Woodward
• New federalism and cracked pillars : the Canadian health insurance system under the 2000 Romanow Commission and beyond / Melissa Haussman
• Debating day care in Finland in the midst of an economic recession and welfare state down-sizing / Terhi Aalto and Anne Maria Holli
• Thirty-five hour workweek reforms in France, 1997-2000 : strong feminist demands, elite apathy, and disappointing outcomes / Amy G. Mazur
• Women, embryos, and the good society : gendering the bioethics debate in Germany / Kathrin Braun
• The reform of the state in Italy / Marila Guadagnini
• Electoral reform in mid-1990s Japan / Misako Iwamoto
• The "home care gap" : neoliberalism, feminism, and the state in the Netherlands / Jantine Oldersma and Joyce Outshoorn
• The women's movement, state feminism, and unemployment reform in Spain, 2002-2003 / Celia Valiente
• The debate about care allowance in the light of welfare state reconfiguration / Christina Bergqvist
• The UK : reforming the House of Lords / Joni Lovenduski
• Welfare reform : America's hot issue / Dorothy E. McBride
• Conclusions : State feminism and state restructuring since the 1990s / Birgit Sauer, Melissa Haussman, and Dorothy E. McBride.