Poor Women in Rich Countries:The Feminization of Poverty Over the Life Course

富国里的穷女人

福利社会学

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出版时间
2009年10月19日
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平装
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9780195314304
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352
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235x156mm
语      种
英文
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The first book to study women’s poverty over the life course, this wide-ranging collection focuses on the economic condition of single mothers and single elderly women--while also considering partnered women and immigrants--in eight wealthy but diverse countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In a rich analysis of labor market and social welfare sectors, Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg and a team of outstanding international contributors conclude that both living-wage employment and government provision of adequate benefits and services are necessary if lone women are to achieve a socially acceptable living standard. Taken together, the chapters extend a feminist critique of welfare state theories and chart nations’ disparate progress against poverty -- probing, for instance, how Sweden emerged a leader in the prevention of women’s poverty while the United States continues to lag
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