TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Cathy Marie
AU  - Duerst-Lahti,Georgia
TI  - Creating Gender: The Sexual Politics of Welfare Policy 
SN  - 9781626373211
AV  - HV95 .J65 2007
U1  - 361.650973 
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Boulder : 
PB  - Lynne Rienner Publishers, 
KW  - Family policy
KW  - United States
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - USA
KW  - Public welfare
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Government policy
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables --; Preface --; 1 Making Gender, Making Policy --; 2 On Creating Gender --; 3 Toward a Suitably Complex Framework of Analysis --; 4 Unfolding Gender Paradigms: A History of Sexual Politics in Welfare Policy --; 5 Making Masculine Mothers: Vanquishing Feminality --; 6 Policy Casts Fathers: Deadbeats and Scofflaws, Good Guys and Promise Keepers --; 7 Gender Ideology in Practice: The Case of Wisconsin’s Legislature --; 8 Measuring Gender’s Influence in Congressional Policymaking --; 9 Recognizing the Sexual Politics of Policy --; Appendixes --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book; restricted access
N2  - Seldom do we notice, let alone explicitly acknowledge, that public policies set distinct parameters for gender. But as Creating Gender compellingly demonstrates, in reality governments do use policy—to legitimize and support some gender-based behaviors, while undermining others. Looking in depth at the case of welfare reform, but considering a wide range of policy arenas, the authors examine how government policymaking in essence defines the "proper" nature of males and females. At the heart of their analysis is an effort to resolve questions about how policies determine what women and men must do to be granted standing as good citizens—and what benefits they can subsequently accrue. The result is a clear yet sophisticated exploration of the troublesome, sometimes insidious, ways in which gender ideology works in tandem with conventional political ideologies in the United States today
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781626373211
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781626373211
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781626373211/original
ER  -