Pleidooi voor de emancipatie van de vrouw.

Author "challenges many of the current feminist orthodoxies of war and peace, female sexuality, pornography, psychoanalysis and sociobiology."--Jacket.

Designed for students of social policy and womene(tm)s studies, this text gives a readable account of the wide range of feminist ideas about women and welfare. The authors draw on feminist theory, research and analysis to explore womene(tm)s experiences of welfare, and the debates within feminism on how and why the welfare state oppresses women. In an original contribution they discuss womene(tm)s impact on the development of the welfare state both as feminist campaigners and as pioneers of new welfare professions. (...) The book concludes by reviewing contemporary feminist strategies to transform the welfare state to meet womene(tm)s needs. Whilst the authors put forward their own evaluation of these different feminist approaches, they aim to leave readers with plenty of scope to make up their own minds on the issues. (shrink)

To understand the Welfare State it is necessary to understand the way it deals with women. Gillian Pascal considers whether approaches to welfare in the 1980s are any more receptive to a feminist perspective than those developed in the 1940s.