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Distributed for Amsterdam University Press

Monique Kremer

How Welfare States Care

Culture, Gender and Parenting in Europe

300 pages,  6-1/4 x 9-1/4 
Series: Amsterdam University Press - Changing Welfare States

Paper $47.75

ISBN: 9789053569757   Published August 2007
For sale only in the United States, its dependencies, the Philippines, and Canada

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Working Women and the Question of Care and Culture in Europe
2. Cinderella and Snow White Are Fairy Tales: Linking Care and Citizenship
3. Policy or Culture? Explaining Women's Employment Differences in Europe
4. Citizenship in Practice: Work, Care, and Income
5. The Right to Give Care: Tax, Social Security, and Leave
6. The Right to Receive Care: The State of Childcare Services
7. After Full-Time Mother Care: Ideals of Care in Policy
8. How Welfare States Work: Ideals of Care in Practice
9. Conclusion: Care and the Cultural Dimension of Welfare States
Appendix I: Governments in Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands and the UK
                   1980-2000
Appendix II: List of Interviewees
Notes
References
Subjects



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