The legal tender of gender : welfare, law, and the regulation of women's poverty / / edited by Shelley AM Gavigan and Dorothy E Chunn.

• Superior document: Onati international series in law and society
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Gavigan, Shelley A. M.; Chunn, Dorothy E.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Onati international series in law and society.
• Physical Description: xiii, 294 p. :; ill.
• Other title: Women, social reproduction and the neo-liberal assault on the US welfare state /; Women, the state and welfare law : the Canadian experience /; Gender and the rise of the welfare state in fin-de-siecle New York City : the case of tenement regulation /; "Mothers at work" : the welfare rights movement and welfare reform in the 1960s /; Women in the workforce in the context of neo-liberalism : the case of Israel /; "Risky women" : the role of "risk" in the construction of the single mother /; Intimate intrusions : welfare regulation and women's personal lives /; Retrenchment not reform : using law and policy to restrict the entitlement of women with disabilities to social assistance /; Substantive universality : reconceptualizing feminist approaches to social provision and child care /; Women's work and a guaranteed income /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9781841133140; 1841133140; 9781841133157 (pbk.); 1841133159
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Shelley AM Gavigan and Dorothy E Chunn.