| Description |
208 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Social policy: continuities and change / Christine Hallett -- 2. 'Race', gender and social policy /Shafquat Nasir -- 3. Women and employment / Claire Callender -- 4. Women, poverty and social security /Jane Millar -- 5. Women and housing / Roberta Woods --6. Women and educational reform / Rosemary Deem -- 7. Women and health care / Peggy Foster -- 8. Women and the personal social services / Ann Davis -- 9. Women and community care / Susan Tester -- 10. Men's violence and relationship breakdown: can violence be dealt with as an exception to the rule? / Carol-Ann Hooper -- 11. Women and private welfare / Margaret May and Edward Brunsdon |
| Summary |
Women and Social Policy is a major textbook on women and social policy in the 199Os. Written by a team of leading academics, the book provides an introduction to the key topics and issues in social policy as they directly affect women as both users and providers of welfare services. Women and Social Policy covers all the traditional core areas of social policy provision: employment, poverty and social security, housing, education, health, and personal social services. It also addresses a range of other relevant social policy issues such as race, community care, domestic violence and private welfare |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 177-201 |
| Subject |
Social work with women -- Great Britain.
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Women social workers -- Great Britain.
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| Author |
Hallett, Christine.
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| LC no. |
95022968 |
| ISBN |
0133538893 (paperback) |
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