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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Legal Tender of Gender: Law Welfare and the Regulation of Womens Poverty by Contributions by Mimi Abramovitz Contributions by Mimi Ajzenstadt Contributions by Felice Batlan Contributions by Dorothy E. Chunn Contributions by Shelley A. M. Gavigan Contributions by Joan M.
Extensive welfare law and policy reforms characterised the making and unmaking of Keynesian states in the twentieth century. This collection highlights the gendered nature of these regulatory shifts and specifically the roles played by women as reformers welfare workers and welfare recipients in the development of welfare states historically. The contributors are leading feminist socio-legal scholars from a range of disciplines in Canada the United States and Israel. Collectively their analyses of women law and poverty speak to long-standing and ongoing feminist concerns: the importance of historically informed research the relevance of womens agency and resistance to the experience of inequality and injustice the specificity of the experience of poor women and poor mothers the implications of changes to social policy and the possibilities for social change. Such analyses are particularly timely as the devastation of neo-liberalism becomes increasingly obvious.The current world crisis of capitalism is a defining moment for liberal states - a global catastrophe that concomitantly creates a window of opportunity for critical scholars and activists to reframe debates about social welfare work and equality and to reinsert the discourse of social justice into the public consciousness and political agendae of liberal democracies.show more