Gender Equality and Welfare Politics in Scandinavia: The Limits of Political Ambition?

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The Limits of Political Ambition?

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Edited by Kari Melby, Anna-Birte Ravn, Christina Carlsson Wetterberg

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: January 2022
Print publication year:: 2008
Online ISBN:: 9781847423412
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781847423412

Subjects:: Sociology of Gender, Sociology

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This book examines the meanings of gender that underpin policies in the Scandinavian welfare states, historically and today, and raises the question whether the hallmark of the Scandinavian welfare model is a special combination of gender equality and gender differentiation.

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Gender Equality and Welfare Politics in Scandinavia

The Limits of Political Ambition?

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iv

List of tables
pp v-v

Preface
pp vi-vi

Notes on contributors
pp vii-xii

A Nordic model of gender equality? Introduction
pp 1-24

Part One - Meanings of gender equality in Scandinavian welfare policy
pp 25-26

one - Woman-friendly policy paradoxes? Childcare policies and gender equality visions in Scandinavia
pp 27-42

two - The claim of economic citizenship: the concept of equality in a historical context
pp 43-62

three - Married women’s right to pay taxes: debates on gender, economic citizenship and tax law reform in Denmark, 1945–83
pp 63-84

four - Family policy between science and politics
pp 85-100

five - Academic discourse, social policy and the construction of new families
pp 101-116

Part Two - Current challenges: competing discourses on gender equality
pp 117-118

six - The ‘new father’: gender equality as discursive resource for family policies
pp 119-134

seven - From powerful to powerless fathers: gender equality in Danish family policies on parenthood
pp 135-148

eight - Dilemmas of citizenship: tensions between gender equality and cultural diversity in the Danish welfare state
pp 149-166

nine - Women friendly? Understanding gendered racism in Sweden
pp 167-182

ten - Young women’s attitudes towards feminism and gender equality
pp 183-198

eleven - A Scandinavian feminist public sphere: discourses on feminism and gender equality
pp 199-214

Postscript Gender, citizenship and social justice in the Nordic welfare states: a view from the outside
pp 215-222

Postscript Future research on gender equality in the Scandinavian countries
pp 223-230

Appendix Tables 1-10
pp 231-238

Index
pp 239-244

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