Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia: The limits of political ambition?
Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia: The limits of political ambition?
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Abstract
Gender equality is often seen as a hallmark of the Nordic countries. This book explores this notion by examining the meanings of gender that underpin policies in the Scandinavian welfare states, historically and today. It focuses on three Scandinavian countries – Denmark, Norway, and Sweden – and the policy reforms that have occurred relating to family and care. Beginning with the radical marriage reform carried through in all the three countries in the early decades of the twentieth century, the book progresses to explore contemporary challenges to the traditional model of equality, including equal rights for fathers, multiculturalism, and a critical young generation. It focuses on both differences and similarities between the countries and discusses the relevance of talking about a Nordic model. Stressing the importance of viewing the concept of equality in its historical context, the book critically investigates and discusses the Scandinavian ‘success story’ portrayed in normative political theory and presents an historical analysis of the development of gendered citizenship rights.
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Front Matter
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A Nordic model of gender equality? Introduction
Kari Melby and others
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Part One Meanings of gender equality in Scandinavian welfare policy
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One
Woman-friendly policy paradoxes? Childcare policies and gender equality visions in Scandinavia
Anette Borchorst
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Two
The claim of economic citizenship: the concept of equality in a historical context
Christina Carlsson Wetterberg andKari Melby
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Three
Married women’s right to pay taxes: debates on gender, economic citizenship and tax law reform in Denmark, 1945–83
Anna-Birte Ravn
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Family policy between science and politics
Åsa Lundqvist
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Academic discourse, social policy and the construction of new families
Christine Roman
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Woman-friendly policy paradoxes? Childcare policies and gender equality visions in Scandinavia
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Part Two Current challenges: competing discourses on gender equality
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The ‘new father’: gender equality as discursive resource for family policies
Trine Annfelt
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From powerful to powerless fathers: gender equality in Danish family policies on parenthood
Charlotte Andersen andAnna-Birte Ravn
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Dilemmas of citizenship: tensions between gender equality and cultural diversity in the Danish welfare state
Birte Siim
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Women friendly? Understanding gendered racism in Sweden
Diana Mulinari
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Young women’s attitudes towards feminism and gender equality
Ann-Dorte Christensen
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A Scandinavian feminist public sphere: discourses on feminism and gender equality
Christina Fiig
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The ‘new father’: gender equality as discursive resource for family policies
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Postscript
Gender, citizenship and social justice in the Nordic welfare states: a view from the outside1
Ruth Lister
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Postscript
Future research on gender equality in the Scandinavian countries
Keith Pringle
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End Matter
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