Intro -- Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia -- Contents -- List of tables -- Preface -- Notes on contributors -- A Nordic model of gender equality? Introduction -- The challenges of today -- A Nordic model? -- A dual breadwinner model? -- New perspectives on parenthood -- Women's economic citizenship - a key issue -- A generational uproar? -- Ethnicity - diversity and Nordic gender-equality models -- Politics, science and everyday life -- The concept of gender equality in a historical context -- 1. Woman-friendly policy paradoxes? Childcare policies and gender equality visions in Scandinavia -- Introduction -- Equality versus difference - a contextual and socially constructed dilemma -- The solution to Wollstonecraft's dilemma: visions for shared caregiving and breadwinning -- Gender equality and Scandinavian welfare states -- Woman-friendly welfare states or modernised patriarchies? -- Understanding difference -- Gender visions of Scandinavian care policies -- Maternity and parental leave -- Day-care services -- Homecarer allowance -- Post-industrial policy paradoxes -- Perspectives on the Scandinavian policy paradoxes -- 2. The claim of economic citizenship:the concept of equality in a historical context -- Equality now and then -- Male breadwinner model or dual breadwinner model? -- Different meanings of gender equality -- 'Economic citizenship' - for the few -- Women's economic independence - subject to women's agency -- Parenthood and the discourse of equality -- Concluding remarks -- 3. Married women's right to pay taxes: debates on gender, economic citizenship and tax law reform in Denmark, 1945-83 -- Gendered tax legislation in Denmark, 1903-83 -- Debates on gender, economic citizenship and tax legislation -- Conclusion -- 4. Family policy between science and politics -- Introduction.

The governmental commission reports in the Swedish political landscape: some methodological reflections -- The growth of Swedish family politics -- 'A brand new family': the emergence of modern family politics, 1930-40 -- Ambivalent family ideals: family policy 1940-60 -- Ideological adaptation and the emergence of a gender-neutral family policy, 1960-70 -- Concluding remarks -- 5. Academic discourse, social policy and the construction of new families -- Introduction -- Family politics and the struggle over needs -- Engineering the gender-neutral family -- Gendering family discourse -- Changing conceptions of fatherhood -- Concluding remarks -- 6. The 'new father': gender equality as discursive resource for family policies -- Introduction -- From presumption for the mother to equal rights with equal responsibilities -- Both parents are allocated rights to access/parental responsibility for their children -- Representation-producing work -- Discursive effects -- Are the representations of 'mother' changing? -- Equality as a power resource before and now -- 7. From powerful to powerless fathers:gender equality in Danish family policies on parenthood -- Introduction -- Changing laws on parenthood -- Changing concepts of fatherhood and motherhood -- Ending the hegemony of the institution of marriage -- Rights and obligations - responsibilities to provide and to care -- Gender, class and equality -- Changing realities? -- Conclusions - a 'universal-caregiver model'? -- 8. Dilemmas of citizenship: tensions between gender equality and cultural diversity in the Danish welfare state -- The multicultural challenge to gender equality -- Nordic approaches to welfare, citizenship and gender -- Migration, integration and gender - Danish exceptionalism? -- Reflections on the intersection of gender and ethnicity from the Nordic contexts.

9. Women friendly? Understanding gendered racism in Sweden -- Introduction -- Theoretical starting points -- A women-friendly welfare state? -- Methodological contentions: the construction of a community -- Ethnocentric policies/migration narratives -- Migrant women at 'risk' -- Unpacking gendered racialised responses to the welfare state -- Motherwork: resisting victimisation -- Reflections -- 10. Young women's attitudes towards feminism and gender equality -- Introduction -- Approach, concepts and empirical data -- Attitudes towards feminism and feminist movements -- Experiences and attitudes towards gender equality -- The right to family focus -- Rethinking the public-private split? -- Conclusion -- 11. A Scandinavian feminist public sphere:discourses on feminism and gender equality -- Introduction -- Feminist voices in the Scandinavian new feminist debate 1999-2004 -- Three discourses on feminism and gender equality -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Postscript: Gender, citizenship and social justice in the Nordic welfare states:a view from the outside -- The 'half-full' analysis -- The 'half-empty' analysis -- Postscript 2: Future research on gender equality inthe Scandinavian countries -- Heterogeneity and homogeneity -- Research and policy: a two-way relationship -- Conceptualising power: intersectionality and processes of mutual constitution -- Gender, class, age and ethnicity -- Broadening comparative welfare analysis -- Which form of gender equality are we talking about? -- Difference as a barrier to the achievement of equality? -- Difference as a barrier, or as a pathway, to equality? -- An uncertain future -- Appendix -- Index.

This book examines the meanings of gender that underpin policies in the Scandinavian welfare states, historically and today, and raises the question whether the hallmark of the Scandinavian welfare model is a special combination of gender equality and gender differentiation.

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