{"product_id":"gendering-the-state-in-the-age-of-globalization-9780742540163","title":"Gendering the State in the Age of Globalization","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGendering the State is a ground-breaking collection of studies that examines the efforts of women in countries all over the world to frame public policy debates on nationally critical issues in gendered terms. This is the latest volume in the Research Network on Gender and the State (RNGS) collaborative studies. Using the RNGS model of women''s movement and women''s policy actor strategies to influence public policy debates and state response, the book looks at data gathered from ten European countries (including Finland and Sweden), plus Japan, Australia, Canada, and the United States from the 1990s to today.The overall study is grouped into three distinct patterns of state change: state downsizingparticularly in social policy areas (Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, the United States, and Spain); expansion of state activities into previously less-regulated areas (Austria, France, Germany, and Sweden); and transformationoften constitutionally basedof representative structures (Austral\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA major contribution to our understanding of the impact of the women's movement on state policy in the period since the 1990s and, in particular, on how we can systematically examine this question. Gendering the State in the Age of Globalization compares the impact of women's policy agencies and the women's movement on current major state policies in fourteen countries. Individual country chapters provide genuinely comparable data (something of enormous value but not always achieved in collections) and, from this, the editors rigorously test their hypotheses in a rich concluding chapter. A book to read and to keep. -- Caroline Andrew, University of Ottawa\u003cbr\u003eThis volume is welcome because it analyzes the relationship between women's movements and public policy debates across a range of countries, sometimes in surprising ways. Some of these issues have not been examined previously in an empirical, gender-sensitive analysis. -- Donley T. Studlar, West Virginia University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Introduction: Women's Movements and State Restructuring in the 1990s  Chapter 2: Re-evaluating the Heart of Society: Family Policy in Austria  Chapter 3: Feminism and Indigenous Rights in Australia in the 1990s  Chapter 4: Speedy Belgians: The New Nationality Law of 2000 and the Impact of the Women's Movement  Chapter 5: New Federalism and Cracked Pillars: The Canadian Health Insurance System under the 2000 Romanow Commission and Beyond  Chapter 6: Debating Day Care in Finland in the Midst of an Economic Recession and Welfare State Down-Sizing  Chapter 7: Thirty-five Hour Workweek Reforms in France, 1997–2000: Strong Feminist Demands, Elite Apathy, and Disappointing Outcomes  Chapter 8: Women, Embryos, and the Good Society: Gendering the Bioethics Debate in Germany  Chapter 9: The Reform of the State in Italy  Chapter 10: Electoral Reform in Mid-1990s Japan  Chapter 11: The Home Care Gap: Neoliberalism, Feminism, and the State in the Netherlands  Chapter 12: The Women's Movement, State Feminism, and Unemployment Reform in Spain, 2002–2003  Chapter 13: The Debate about Care Allowance in the Light of Welfare State Reconfiguration  Chapter 14: The UK: Reforming the House of Lords  Chapter 15: Welfare Reform: America's Hot Issue  Chapter 16: Conclusion: State Feminism and State Restructuring since the 1990s","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037598351703,"sku":"9780742540163","price":107.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780742540163.jpg?v=1750936437","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gendering-the-state-in-the-age-of-globalization-9780742540163","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}