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The Handbook of Social Policy is an attempt to document the now substantial body of knowledge about government social policies that has been accumulated since the study of social policy first emerged as an organized field of academic endeavor about 50 years ago. The Second Edition offers a more streamlined format to make the book more consistent with the way most instructors teach their courses. This text is a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to a vast field of endeavor that has, over the years, made a significant difference to the lives and the well-being of the people of the United States.
Feminist Approaches to Social Policy
Feminist Approaches to Social Policy
Feminist approaches to social policy are concerned with issues relevant to the social, economic, and political well-being of women and their families and to the structural apparatuses and collective processes that either empower or subordinate women. Such analyses are necessary correctives to gender blind and androcentric perspectives that dominate social policy discourse. Fortunately, there has been an explosion of multidisciplinary feminist scholarship on social policy. Central themes in these efforts are the reclamation of women's experiences and the illumination of gendered dynamics in social welfare.
Myriad policies touch the lives of women—child care, reproductive rights, workplace equity, income maintenance, divorce, educational access, and sexual violence, to name but a few (Blankenship, 1993; Gelb & Palley, 1996; Hill ...
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