Creating Gender : : The Sexual Politics of Welfare Policy / / Cathy Marie Johnson, Georgia Duerst-Lahti.
Seldom do we notice, let alone explicitly acknowledge, that public policies set distinct parameters for gender. But as Creating Gender compellingly demonstrates, in reality governments do use policy—to legitimize and support some gender-based behaviors, while undermining others. Looking in depth at...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- 1 Making Gender, Making Policy
- 2 On Creating Gender
- 3 Toward a Suitably Complex Framework of Analysis
- 4 Unfolding Gender Paradigms: A History of Sexual Politics in Welfare Policy
- 5 Making Masculine Mothers: Vanquishing Feminality
- 6 Policy Casts Fathers: Deadbeats and Scofflaws, Good Guys and Promise Keepers
- 7 Gender Ideology in Practice: The Case of Wisconsin’s Legislature
- 8 Measuring Gender’s Influence in Congressional Policymaking
- 9 Recognizing the Sexual Politics of Policy
- Appendixes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Book