Skip to main content
Springer Nature Link
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context

Uncovering the Gendered Structure of 'The Social'

  • Book
  • © 2006

Overview

Editors:
  1. Shahra Razavi

    1. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Switzerland

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Shireen Hassim

    1. University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Social Policy in a Development Context (SPDC)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution

Subscribe and save

Springer+ Basic
$34.99 /Month
  • Get 10 units per month
  • Download Article/Chapter or eBook
  • 1 Unit = 1 Article or 1 Chapter
  • Cancel anytime
Subscribe now

Buy Now

eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

About this book

This book illustrates why both academic research and policy thinking need to factor-in gender hierarchies and structures if they are to address some of the key challenges of contemporary societies: the widespread informality and insecurity of paid work and the crisis of care.

Similar content being viewed by others

Keywords

Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context: Uncovering the Gendered Structure of ‘the Social’

    1. Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context: Uncovering the Gendered Structure of ‘the Social’

      • Shireen Hassim, Shahra Razavi
      Pages 1-39

  3. Historical and Regional Trajectories in Social Provisioning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Mothers at the Service of the New Poverty Agenda: The PROGRESA/Oportunidades Programme in Mexico

      • Maxine Molyneux
      Pages 43-67

    3. Gender and Post-socialist Welfare States in Central Eastern Europe: Family Policy Reforms in Poland and the Czech Republic Compared

      • Silke Steinhilber
      Pages 68-86

    4. Maternalist Policies versus Women’s Economic Citizenship? Gendered Social Policy in Iran

      • Valentine M. Moghadam
      Pages 87-108

    5. Gender Equality and Developmental Social Welfare in South Africa

      • Shireen Hassim
      Pages 109-129

    6. Social Policy Reforms and Gender in Japan and South Korea

      • Ito Peng
      Pages 130-150

    7. The Evolution of the Women-friendly State: Opportunities and Constraints in the Swedish Welfare State

      • Barbara Hobson
      Pages 151-172

    8. The Adult-worker-model Family and Gender Equality: Principles to Enable the Valuing and Sharing of Care

      • Jane Lewis, Susanna Giullari
      Pages 173-190

  4. Labour Market Informality and the Search for Social Security

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Labour Market Informalization, Gender and Social Protection: Reflections on Poor Urban Households in Bolivia and Ecuador

      • Lourdes Benería, Maria S. Floro
      Pages 193-216

    3. Working People and Access to Social Protection

      • Francie Lund
      Pages 217-233

  5. Gender Dimensions of Social-sector Restructuring

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Gender and Health Sector Reform: Analytical Perspectives on African Experience

      • Maureen Mackintosh, Paula Tibandebage
      Pages 237-257

    3. Health Sector Reform in China: Gender Equality and Social Justice

      • Jufen Wang
      Pages 258-277

    4. Secondary Education in the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh: Gender Dimensions of State Policy and Practice

      • Jyotsna Jha, Ramya Subrahmanian
      Pages 278-298

  6. Financing Social Provisioning and Counting in Women

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 299-299
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Gendered Implications of Tax Reform in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica and Jamaica

      • Evelyne Huber
      Pages 301-321

    3. Expectations versus Realities in Gender-responsive Budget Initiatives

      • Debbie Budlender
      Pages 322-339
Back to top

Reviews

'...an extremely valuable feminist viewpoint on social policy in a global context.' - Diane Perrons, Feminist Economics

Editors and Affiliations

  • United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Switzerland

    Shahra Razavi

  • University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    Shireen Hassim

About the editors

LOURDES BENERIA Professor of City and Regional Planning and Women's Studies and Director, International Studies in Planning Programme, Cornell University, USA DEBBIE BUDLENDER Specialist Researcher of Social Policy, Community Agency for Social Enquiry (CASE), South Africa MARIA S. FLORO Associate Professor, Economics Department, American University, USA SUSY GIULLARI Former BA Fellow and Research Officer, UK BARBARA HOBSON Professor of Sociology, Stockholm University, Sweden EVELYNE HUBER Morehead Alumni Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA JYOTSNA JHA Advisor on Gender and Education, Social Transformation Programmes Division, Commonwealth Secretariat, UK JANE LEWIS Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK FRANCES LUND Associate Professor in Social Policy, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa MAUREEN MACKINTOSH Professor of Economics, The Open University, UK VALENTINE M. MOGHADAM Chief of Section, Social and Human Sciences Sector, UNESCO, USA MAXINE MOLYNEUX Professor of Sociology, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, UK ITO PENG Associate Professor of Political Sociology and Director, Dr. David Chu Chair Programme in Asia Pacific Studies, University of Toronto, Canada SILKE STEINHILBER Researcher and Consultant, Germany RAMYA SUBRAHMANIAN Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK PAULA TIBANDEBAGE Senior Research Fellow, Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF), Tanzania JUFEN WANG Professor, School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University, China

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top