Engendering the Welfare State. A Review Article

Comparative Studies in Society and History

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 748-767

  Haney, Lynne A ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84937267885     PISSN: 00104175     EISSN: 14752999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0010417598001728     Document Type: Article

References (71)

1. Linda Gordon, “The New Feminist Scholarship on the Welfare State,” in L. Gordon, ed., Women, the State and Welfare (Wisconsin, 1990).
2. For an excellent review of feminist work on maternalism and motherhood, see Lisa Brush, “Love, Toil, and Trouble: Motherhood and Feminist Politics,” Signs (1996), 21:21.
3. For feminist analyses of maternalism and the origins of the welfare state, see Robyn Muncy, Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890–1935 (Oxford, 1991)
4. Theda Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers (Harvard, 1992)
5. Linda Gordon, Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare (Cambridge, 1995)
6. Molly Ladd-Taylor,Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890–1930 (University of Illinois, 1994)
7. Seth Koven and Sonya Michel, eds., Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and Origins of Welfare States (Routledge, 1993)
8. Gisella Bock and Pat Thane, eds., Maternity and Gender Policies: Women and the Rise of European Welfare States, 1880s-1950s (Routledge, 1991)
9. Lori Ginzberg, Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics, and Class in Nineteenth-Century United States (Yale, 1990)
10. Regina Kunzel, Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890–1945 (Yale, 1993).
11. For feminist analyses of the gendered underpinnings of state re/distributive practices, see Nancy Fraser, Unruly Practices (Minnesota, 1989)
12. Linda Gordon and Nancy Fraser, “Dependency Demystified: Inscriptions of Power in a Keyword of the Welfare State,” Social Politics, 1:14–31
13. Virginia Sapiro, “The Gender Bias of American Social Policy,” Political Science Quarterly (1986), 101:221–38
14. Barbara Nelson, “The Origins of the Two-Channel Welfare State: Workman's Compensation and Mothers'Aid,” in L. Gordon, ed., Women, the State, and Welfare (Wisconsin, 1990)
15. L. Bryson, Welfare and the State (Macmillan, 1992).
16. For studies of the racialized undercurrents of state re/distribution, see Gwendolyn Mink, Wages of Motherhood (Cornell, 1994)
17. Jill Quadagno, The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty (Oxford, 1994)
18. Eileen Boris, “The Racialized Gendered State: Constructions of Citizenship in the United States,” Social Politics, 2:16–80.
19. There is a vast literature addressing how the state bolsters male dominance. For an excellent overview of these arguments, see Ann Orloff, “Gender in the Welfare State,” Annual Review of Sociology (1996), 22:51–78.
20. For feminist analyses of “state patriarchy,” see Mimi Abramovitz, Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present (South End, 1988)
21. Jane Jensen, “Gender and Reproduction: Or, Babies and the State,” Studies in Political Economy (1986), 20:9–45
22. Carol Brown, “Mothers, Fathers, and Children: From Private to Public Patriarchy,” in L. Sargent, ed., Women and Revolution (South End, 1981)
23. Mary Mcintosh, “The State and the Oppression of Women,” in A. Kuhn and A. Wolpe, eds., Feminism and Materialism (Routledge, 1978).
24. Feminist discussions of the state's ameliorative effects are far less common but include Frances Fox Piven, “ideology and the State: Women, Power and the Welfare State,” in L. Gordon, ed., Women, the State, and Welfare (Wisconsin, 1990)
25. Sheila Kamerman, “Women, Children, and Poverty: Public Policies and Female-Headed Households in Industrialized Countries,” in B. Gelpi, N. Hartsock, C. Novak, and M. Strober, eds., Women and Poverty (Chicago, 1986)
26. Mary Ruggie, The State and Working Women (Princeton, 1984)
27. G. Goldberg and E. Kreman, The Feminization of Poverty: Only in America? (Praeger, 1990).
28. See Koven and Michel “Mother Worlds,” in Koven and Michel, eds., Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and Origins of Welfare States.
29. For examples of such analyses, see Gisella Bock and Pat Thane, eds., Maternity and Gender Policies: Women and the Rise of European Welfare States, 1880s-1950s
30. Alyssa Klaus, Every Child A Lion: The Origins of Maternal and Infant Health Policy in the United States and France, 1890–1920 (Cornell, 1993).
31. Still other feminists connect the role of female reformers to the organizational makeup of the state. See Jane Jensen, “Gender and Reproduction,” and Barbara Hobson, “Feminist Strategies and Gendered Discourses in Welfare States,” in Koven and Michel, eds., Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and Origins of Welfare States.
32. Koven and Michel, eds., Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and Origins of Welfare States
33. Bock and Thane, eds., Maternity and Gender Policies: Women and the Rise of European-Welfare States, 1880s-1950s.
34. See Diane Sainsbury, ed., Gendering Welfare States (Sage, 1994)
35. Jane Lewis ed., Women and Social Policies in Europe: Work, Family, and the State (Edward Elgar, 1993)
36. Kamerman, “Women, Children, and Poverty: Public Policies and Female-Headed Households in Industrialized Countries”
37. Isabella Bakker, “Engendering Macro-Economic Policy Reform in the Era of Global Restructuring and Adjustment,” in I. Bakker, ed., The Strategic Silence (Zed, 1994)
38. Jane Jensen, “Some Consequences of Economic and Political Restructuring and Readjustment,” Social Politics (1996), 3:1–12.
39. For an analysis of these larger debates and their connections to feminist discussions, see Ann Orloff, “Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship: The Comparative Analysis of Gender Relations and Welfare States,” American Sociological Review (1993) 58:303–28
40. Julia Adams, “Feminist Therory as Fifth Columnist or Discursive Vanguard: Some Contested Uses of Gender Analysis in Historical Sociology,” Social Politics, 5:1 (1998), 1–16.
41. For a discussion of the conflicting and competing nature of the state, see Lynne Haney, “Home-boys, Babies, Men in Suits: The State and the Reproduction of Male Dominance,” American Sociological Review (1996), 61.
42. Diane Sainsbury, Gender, Equality, and Welfare States (Cambridge, 1996).
43. See Ann Orloff, “Gender in the Welfare State”
44. Idem., “Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship: The Comparative Analysis of Gender Relations and Welfare States”
45. Julia O'Connor, Ann Orloff, and Sheila Shaver, States, Markets, and Families: Gender, Liberalism, and Social Policy in Australia, Britain, Canada, and the United States (forthcoming)
46. Sheila Shaver, “Body Rights, Social Rights and the Liberal Welfare State,” Critical Social Policy (1993), 13:66–93
47. Siv Gustafsson, “Childcare and Types of Welfare States,” in Sainsbury, ed., Gendering Welfare States
48. Peter Taylor-Gooby, “Welfare State Regimes and Welfare Citizenship,” Journal of European Social Policy (1991), 1:93–105.
49. For a few examples of this new typologizing, see Jane Lewis, “Gender and the Development of Welfare Regimes,” Journal of European Social Policy (1992), 3:159–73
50. Barbara Hobson, “Solo Mothers, Social Policy Regimes, and the Logic of Gender,” in D. Sainsbury, ed., Gendering Welfare States
51. Jet Bussemaker and Kees van Kersbergen, “Gender and Welfare States: Some Theoretical Reflections,” in D. Sainsbury, ed., Gendering Welfare States.
52. Sainsbury extends other feminists' frameworks by centering all three of these social roles. Instead of giving analytical priority to the mother, wife, and worker role, she theorizes all of these positions as key to women's eligibility claims. For regime analyses that center on a more limited number of social positions, see Lewis, “Gender and the Development of Welfare Regimes”
53. Hobson, “Solo Mothers, Social Policy Regimes, and the Logic of Gender”
54. Mary Langan and Ilona Ostner, “Gender and Welfare: Toward a Comparative Framework,” in Graham Room, ed., Toward a European Welfare State? (School for Advanced Urban Studies, 1991).
55. For a discussion of women's different interests in the state, see Maxine Molyneux, “Mobilization Without Emancipation? Women's Interests, the State, and Revolution in Nicaragua,” Feminist Studies, 11(1995):227–54.
56. See Lynne Haney, Inventing the Needy: Policies, Practices, and the Gender of Welfare in Hungary, 1948–1996 (forthcoming)
57. Lynne Haney, “But We Are Still Mothers: Gender and the Construction of Need in Post-Socialist Hungary,” Social Politics (1997), 4:208–44.
58. Nancy Fraser, “Women, Welfare, and the Politics of Need Interpretation,” in Unruly Practices.
59. Examples of single case origins stories include Gordon, Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare
60. Muncy, Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890–1935
61. Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers
62. Ladd-Taylor, Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare and the State, 1890–1930
63. Mink, Wages of Motherhood
64. Nelson, “The Origins ofthe Two-Channel Welfare State: Workman's Compensation and Mothers' Aid.” Examples of two case origin stories include Klaus, Every Child A Lion: The Origins of Maternal and Infant Health Policy in the United States and France, 1890–1920
65. Hobson, “Solo Mothers, Social Policy Regimes, and the Logic of Gender”
66. Ruggie, The State and Working Women.
67. Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers
68. Gordon, Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare
69. Muncy, Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890–1935.
70. For examples of other local studies of welfare practices, see Linda Gordon, Heroes of their Own Lives: The History and Politics of Family Violence (Viking, 1988)
71. Kunzel, Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890–1945.