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Gender Regimes in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe
Gillian Kwa
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Description for Gender Regimes in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe
Paperback. Understanding of welfare states has been much enriched by comparative work on welfare regimes and gender. This book uses these debates to illuminate the changing gender regimes in countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DF; 1DV; JFS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Understanding of welfare states has been much enriched by comparative work on welfare regimes and gender. This book uses these debates to illuminate the changing gender regimes in countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It has particular significance as countries in the region make the transition from communism and into a European Union that has issues of women's employment, work-life balance, and gender equality at the heart of its social policy. The analysis draws on quantitative comparative data, and on rich qualitative data from a new study of mothers in Polish households, illuminating the effects of changing welfare and gender ... Read more
Understanding of welfare states has been much enriched by comparative work on welfare regimes and gender. This book uses these debates to illuminate the changing gender regimes in countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It has particular significance as countries in the region make the transition from communism and into a European Union that has issues of women's employment, work-life balance, and gender equality at the heart of its social policy. The analysis draws on quantitative comparative data, and on rich qualitative data from a new study of mothers in Polish households, illuminating the effects of changing welfare and gender ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847424204
SKU
V9781847424204
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Ref
99-50
About Gillian Kwa
Gillian Pascall is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Nottingham, UK. She has a long-standing interest in the relationship between gender and welfare states. Anna Kwak is a professor in the Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warsaw, Poland. She has written widely on the family and on children's rights.
Reviews for Gender Regimes in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe
"The authors skillfully combine quantitative and qualitative data and the book successfully shows that gender-based typologies of welfare regimes can be used to compare Central, Eastern and Western European countries." Journal of Social Policy "An innovative yet undogmatic book that summarises the emergent gender regimes of two regions with unprecedented changes. Written by leading experts in the field, it is ... Read more