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Creating Gender : The Sexual Politics of Welfare Policy / Cathy Marie Johnson, Georgia Duerst-Lahti.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (262 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781626373211
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 361.650973
LOC classification:
  • HV95 .J65 2007
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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