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PART I: INTRODUCTION

Risking Difference: Reconceptualizing the Boundaries between the Public and Private Spheres

Susan Baker

PART II: GENDERED THOUGHT, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, AND POLICY NETWORKS

The Masculinity of Organizational Life

Celia Davies

Reframing the `Public' in Public Administration

Camilla Stivers

Women and Policy: the European Union Dimension

Liz Sperling

Charlotte Bretherton

PART III: WORK, WELFARE STATES, AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

Work-Family Arrangements: the Role of the State versus the Role of the Private Sector

Anneke van Doorne-Huiskes

Comparative Childcare Policy and the Public-Private Divide

Vicky Randall

European Policies and Women's Rights in the United Kingdom

Elizabeth Meehan

Evelyn Collins

Welfare-State Reform and Equal Opportunities: the Case of the Netherlands

Janneke Plantenga

PART IV: HEALTH, REPRODUCTION, AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Gender Dimensions of Occupational Health and Safety in Canada: the Case of Fetal Protection from Toxins in the Workplace

Therese Jennissen

Power, Policy, and Health: European Women's Perspectives on the Human Genome Analysis

Jalna Hanmer

Ineke Klinge

Women and the Planning Process in the Man-Made Environment in the Netherlands---Linkages and Policy Imperatives