The Scandinavian Welfare States: towards sexual equality or a new kind of male domination?

Bidragets oversatte titel: De skandinaviske velfærdsstater: mod lighed mellem køn eller en ny slags mandlig dominans?

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    Abstract

    The paper studies the debate about the Scandinavian welfare states from a feminist persepctive, forcusing on the differences between a feminist perspective and the dominant liberal and critical marxist understanding of the welfare state. In particular it focuses on the argument that the Scandinavian welfare states are the most advanced in relation to women and dicusses both the potentialities and the dangers in the Scandinavian welfare states in relation to women. The paper points to the need to integrate gender relations in the theoretical model for an analysis of the welfare state and emphasises the need to explore the relationship between the family and the state ( and the family and the economy) in difefrent wefare states. The paper emphasises that the qualitative difference in the organization of care work are important for understanding the institutional differences for between the welfare states, and especially the Scandinavian welfare states, where motherhood and care work has to day bef´come part of social citizenship The auther argues that even though women have in important ways been empowered in the Scandinavian woefare states as mothers, workers and citizens, they have at the same time become subsumed under a new kind of male domination in the public sphere.
    Bidragets oversatte titelDe skandinaviske velfærdsstater: mod lighed mellem køn eller en ny slags mandlig dominans?
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    Artikelnummer3/4
    TidsskriftActa Sociologica
    Vol/bind30
    Udgave nummer3/4
    Sider (fra-til)255-270
    Antal sider15
    ISSN0001-6993
    StatusUdgivet - 1987

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