States, Markets, Families O'Connor Orloff Shaver Hardback 9780521630924

States, Markets, FamiliesGender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States\nAuthor(s): Julia S. O'Connor, Ann Shola Orloff, Sheila Shaver\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521630924, 978-0521630924\nSynopsis\nThe 1990s have seen dramatic restructuring of state social provision in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia. This has occurred largely because of the rise of market liberalism, which challenges the role of the state. This important book examines the impact of changes in social policy regimes on gender roles and relations. Structured thematically and systematically comparative, it analyses three key policy areas: labor markets, income maintenance and reproductive rights. Largely driven by issues of equality, it considers the role of the state as a site for gender and sexual politics at a time when primacy is given to the market, developing an arg.