Product Description: The recent radical cutbacks of the welfare state in the United Kingdom have kept poverty and income management at the heart of intellectual, public, and policy discourse. This innovative book adds to that conversation, taking as its focus the role and significance of family in the context of poverty and low-income conditions...read more

Welfare is an important concept in the social sciences. It is also challenged and contested not only by alternative concepts but also as a political goal in itself. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, this book takes a fresh look at the continuing relevance of welfare in the context of public policy, recent scholarly developments and changes in popular attitudes and behaviour. The book connects theory and practice. Tracing the concept's background in economics, political science and social policy, the book juxtaposes welfare with newer approaches, such as subjective well-being, capabilities, care, social exclusion and social capital. The links between welfare and political ideas are also elaborated. The welfare state, as it developed historically in Europe and as it is changing in different countries, is given an important place in the analysis. Drawing on a range of empirical work, the book in its final part considers how individuals and groups attain welfare and how this shapes people's decisions and actions in their everyday lives. Written in a lively style, the book provides students of sociology, social policy and political science with a valuable point of access to a range of debates and thinking in the field of welfare and related concepts.

Argues that the Catholic church suppresses women, examines the Scriptures and church history, and discusses the theological roots of the problem

With a revolutionary style that takes on a variety of hot-button issues, the author of The Church and the Second Sex offers a groundbreaking study that champions women as the saviors of the planet and provides the essential strategies needed to combat destructive patriarchal forces. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: Gender and the Welfare State explores the configuration of care, work and welfare in eight countries: France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the USA. Bringing together the most recent empirical data available, it examines the impact of the welfare state on women's and men's roles and power relations, and on their access to resources...read more

The Gender Division of Welfare is an ambitious study that raises interesting and important questions concerning the relationship among welfare states, gender differentiation and social inequality. The book traces the consequences of different welfare state and social policy arrangements for women and men and the households in which they live. Mary Daly examines the British and German welfare states showing that both countries differ markedly in the measures they have instituted in various areas. (view table of contents)

The author presents the women's liberation movement as a spiritual revolution that can stimulate a universal human transformation. Bibliogs

Explores the abuses women face at the end of the twentieth century and offers a vision of hope for women who are discovering Quintessence

Explores the abuses women face at the end of the twentieth century and offers a vision of hope for women who are discovering Quintessence (view table of contents)

Product Description: This title is a journey into the interior of language. The author reveals the patriarchal construction of language and religious imagery, and offers alternatives. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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