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GENDER, SOCIAL CARE AND WELFARE STATE RESTRUCTURING IN EUROPE

Gender, Social Care and Welfare State Restructuring in Europe

Edited by
Jane Lewis

First published 1998 by Ashgate Publishing

Reissued 2018 by Routledge
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Contents

Mary Daly and Jane Lewis

Mary Daly

Hilary Land and Jane Lewis

Trudie Knijn

Ilona Ostner

Claude Martin, Antoine Math and Evelyne Renaudat

Rossana Trifiletti

Kari Wrness

Leila Simonen and Anne Kovalainen

Marta Szebehely

Guide

We would like to acknowledge the financial support of the British Academy and the British ESRC for enabling us to come together to discuss our approach to the subject of this book.

Mary Daly is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Social Policy at the University of Gottingen, Germany, Her current research interests include the stratification effects of welfare states and transformation and change in social policy. Her most recent publications include Social Security, Gender and Equality in the European Union (EC, 1996) and 'The Functioning Family: Catholicism and Social Policy in Germany and Ireland', Comparative Social Research 22 (1998).

Trudie Knijn is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences, University of Utrecht and coordinator of the European Network for Theory and Research on Women, Welfare States and Citizenship. She is doing comparative research on the welfare state, in particular on social policies concerning home care, single motherhood and fatherhood. Most recently she has been the editor (with Clare Ungerson) of a special volume of Social Politics (1997) on gender and care, and wrote for that volume (with Monica Kremer) 'Gender and the Caring Dimensions of Welfare States: towards inclusive citizenship'.

Anne Kovalainen is Acting Professor in Sociology at the Abo Akademi University and will be moving to a chair in women's studies at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki in 1999. Her research interests are new forms of work for women, methodological questions and trust relationships in society. She is the author of At the Margins. Women's Self-Employment in Finland, 1960-1990 (Avebury, 1996) and she is the editor (with Pertti Koistinen) of the forthcoming volume, European Employment Systems (Avebury).

Hilary Land is Professor of Family Policy at the University of Bristol. Her research interests are in family policy and social security. She has published (with Kathleen Kiernan and Jane Lewis) Lone Motherhood in Twentieth-Century Britain (Oxford University Press, 1998) and is the author of many articles, including: (with Hilary Rose, 'Compulsory Altruism for some or an Altruistic Society for all', in P. Bean, J. Ferris and D. Whynes (eds), In Defence of Welfare (Tavistock, 1985); and 'Time to Care', in M. Maclean and D, Groves, Women's Issues in Social Policy (Routledge, 1991).

Jane Lewis is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She will soon be moving to a chair of social policy at the University of Nottingham. Her research interests are in gender, social policy, health and social care, and the voluntary sector. Most recently she has published (with Kathleen Kiernan and Hilary Land) Lone Motherhood in Twentieth-Century Britain (Oxford University Press, 1998), and has edited Lone Mothers in European Welfare Regimes (Jessica Kingsley, 1997).

Claude Martin is research fellow at the CNRS, Centre de Rcherches Administratives et Politiques in Rennes and Director of the Laboratoire d'Analyse des Politiques Sociales et Sanitaires (LAPSS) of the National School of Public Health. He is the author of L'Aprs-Divorce. Lien Familial et Vuln rabilit (Presses Universitaries de Rennes, 1997), and (with Frdric Lesemann) the editor of Home-based Care. The Elderly, the Family and the Welfare State. An International Comparison (Ottawa University Press, 1993).

Antoine Math is an economist at the Bureau de la Recherche of the Caisse Nationale des Allocations Familiales. Fie works on family policy and has published extensively on French families and family policies, including most recently (with Isabelle Amrouni: 'Quelques Caractristiques D mographiques des nficiaires de Minima Sociaux', Recherches et Pr visions (1998) no. 50/51.

Ilona Ostner is Professor of Social Policy at Georg-August-University, Gottingen. Her research interests are in gender and welfare, comparative social policy, family policy, employment regimes and social policy in the European Union. She has published extensively in English and German and most recently has edited (with Stephan Lessenich) Welten des Wohlfahrtskapitalismus (Campus, 1998).

Evelyne Renaudat is a sociologist at the Bureau de la Recherche of the Caisse Nationale des Allocations Familiales. She has worked most recently on problems of service organisation and has published (with Antoine Math), 'Dvelopper l'Accueil des Enfants ou Crer de l'Emploi', Recherches et Pr visions (1997) no. 49.

Leila Simonen is a Research Director at Stakes (National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health) in Helsinki, and AssociateProfessor at the University of Kuopio, Her research interests are in the restructuring of the welfare state, social care entrepreneurship and the rural network economy. She has published extensively in Finnish and is the author of Feminist Social Policy in Finland (Avebury, 1991).

Marta Szebehely is a researcher in the Department of Social Work at Stockholm University. Her research interests are in gender, social policy and care for the elderly, which she has studied from comparative and historical perspectives. She has focused particularly on how the everyday lives of elderly care recipients and their paid and unpaid care providers have been influenced by cutbacks and organizational changes within the Swedish welfare state, and has published extensively in Swedish on these subjects.

Rossana Trifiletti is a researcher at the Department of Political Science and Sociology of Florence (DISPO) and assistant professor in sociology at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Florence, Italy. Her main fields of interest are the sociology of the family, social policies, gender and welfare states, comparative welfare state analysis, women's work and the history of sociological thought. She is now working on CNR funded research on poverty and the reform of the Italian welfare system and for the Ministry of Social Affairs on local welfare systems in big Italian towns. She has published extensively in Italian and is the author of 'Work-family Arrangement in Italy', in L. den Dulk e A van Doorne Huiskes (eds.), Work-Family Arrangement in Europe (forthcoming).

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