This article reviews the feminist critique of Gøsta Esping-Andersen's typology of welfare
regimes and revisits my earlier (1992) analysis of gender and welfare regimes together with …

Care is one of the truly original concepts to have emerged from feminist scholarship, and it
has served as a central hinge in thinking about how welfare states are or can be gendered …

The 1990s have seen dramatic restructuring of state social provision in the US, the UK,
Canada and Australia. This has occurred largely because of the rise of market liberalism …

The prevalence of nonmarital cohabitation is steadily increasing in the United States. In
evaluating the contribution of this new living arrangement to family formation, analysts have …

Theorizing Feminist Policy avoids the usual clash between feminist analysis and non-
feminist social science in mapping out the new field of feminist comparative policy. Instead, it …

Violence against women is one of the most insidious social ills facing the world today. Yet
governmental response is inconsistent, ranging from dismissal to aggressive …

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Wohlfahrtsstaaten im Vergleich Soziale Sicherung in Europa: Organisation, Finanzierung …

The article contributes to the current debate on welfare regimes, bringing together the
widespread need for a fourth welfare regime besides Esping-Andersen's well-known typol …

This article examines the trends in family policies in 22 industrialized countries since 1970.
Based on time-series of indicators of cash benefits and support for working parents, it …

This article examines current family policies in Western Europe against the backdrop of
fertility decline in Europe. Its objective is to depict the nature of family policies from a cross …