Women and Social Policy: A Reader

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-8
The Introduction of Family Allowances: an Act of Historic Justice?....Pages 9-29
Family Allowance....Pages 30-32
The Wrong Rats....Pages 33-43
Introduction....Pages 44-49
Who Still Cares for the Family? Recent Developments in Income Maintenance....Pages 50-62
The Cohabitation Rule — Why It Makes Sense....Pages 63-74
The Cohabitation Rule....Pages 75-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Introduction....Pages 85-90
A Woman’s Place: a Feminist Approach to Housing in Britain....Pages 91-108
The Women’s Room....Pages 109-111
Housework in a Slum....Pages 112-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Introduction....Pages 119-123
State Policy and Ideology in the Education of Women 1944–1980....Pages 124-136
‘Just Three Quiet Girls’....Pages 137-145
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Introduction....Pages 149-153
Women and the Crisis in the National Health Service....Pages 154-160
The Working of the 1967 Abortion Act in Britain....Pages 161-174
Gynaecologist/Woman Interaction....Pages 175-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Introduction....Pages 185-189
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Patriarchy, Professionalisation and the Semi-Professions....Pages 190-206
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Introduction....Pages 209-212
‘Facing the New Challenge’....Pages 213-217
Community Care and the Family: A Case for Equal Opportunities?....Pages 218-242
Women’s Refuges: Creating New Forms of Welfare?....Pages 243-259
Back Matter....Pages 261-278