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Children, Families, and States

Author : Cristina Allemann-Ghionda
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857450972
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Book Synopsis Children, Families, and States by : Cristina Allemann-Ghionda

Download or read book Children, Families, and States written by Cristina Allemann-Ghionda and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to the demand for flexible working hours and employees who are available around the clock, the time patterns of childcare and schooling have increasingly become a political issue. Comparing the development of different “time policies” of half-day and all-day provisions in a variety of Eastern and Western European countries since the end of World War II, this innovative volume brings together internationally known experts from the fields of comparative education, history, and the social and political sciences, and makes a significant contribution to this new interdisciplinary field of comparative study.

Czech Feminisms

Author : Iveta Jusová
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253021936
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Czech Feminisms by : Iveta Jusová

Download or read book Czech Feminisms written by Iveta Jusová and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen essays “apply the intersectional theory in an inspiring way in the analysis of gender issues in the past and in contemporary Czech society” (Aspasia). In this wide-ranging study of women’s and gender issues in the pre- and post-1989 Czech Republic, contributors engage with current feminist debates and theories of nation and identity to examine the historical and cultural transformations of Czech feminism. This collection of essays by leading scholars, artists, and activists, explores such topics as reproductive rights, state socialist welfare provisions, Czech women’s NGOs, anarchofeminism, human trafficking, LGBT politics, masculinity, feminist art, among others. Foregrounding experiences of women and sexual and ethnic minorities in the Czech Republic, the contributors raise important questions about the transfer of feminist concepts across languages and cultures. As the economic orthodoxy of the European Union threatens to occlude relevant stories of the different national communities comprising the Eurozone, this book contributes to the understanding of the diverse origins from which something like a European community arises. “While the collection demands that we understand Czech uniqueness, at the same time it is at its best when this uniqueness comes into focus through comparative study.” —Feminist Review “A colorful bouquet offering an overview of directions taken by Czech feminist scholarship since the 1990s.” —Slavic Review

Fathers, Childcare and Work

Author : Rosy Musumeci
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787430413
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Fathers, Childcare and Work written by Rosy Musumeci and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work-life balance of fathers has increasingly come under scrutiny in political and academic debates and this collection brings together qualitative and quantitative analyses to explore their approaches to reconciling paid work and care responsibilities.

The Development of Czech Childcare Policies

Author : Steven Saxonberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788073302290
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Development of Czech Childcare Policies written by Steven Saxonberg and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Politics of Parental Leave Policies

Author : Sheila B. Kamerman
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1847429033
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Parental Leave Policies written by Sheila B. Kamerman and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title covers 15 countries in Europe and beyond bringing together leading academic experts to provide a unique insight into the past, present and future state of this key policy area.

Local Welfare Policy Making in European Cities

Author : Dagmar Kutsar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319161636
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Local Welfare Policy Making in European Cities written by Dagmar Kutsar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on how EU welfare policies are implemented at the local level in 11 European cities and how local policy making addresses women’s care responsibilities. The book studies the complex combination of and the relationships between local political processes, policies, institutions, structural conditions and outputs, as well as outcomes for the women’s labour market integration. It demonstrates how cultural settings and multi-level governance patterns form the “playground” for local policy makers to formulate their welfare policies concerning service provision. The book further demonstrates how local production systems and the situation of the local labour market influence the prospects that women have in working and caring. EU welfare policy promotes the labour market integration of women as well as gender equality. The provision of adequate care services is vital in supporting women’s employment. Within comparative welfare research, the focus has been on the national welfare systems and policies even if care services are overwhelmingly provided by local authorities that in many EU member states enjoy considerable autonomy. This book fills the gap in understanding local welfare policy making from a comparative perspective.

The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe

Author : Anna-Maija Castrén
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030733068
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Book Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe by : Anna-Maija Castrén

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe written by Anna-Maija Castrén and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a meaningful overview of topical themes within family sociology as an academic field as well as empirical realities in various societal contexts across Europe. More than sixty prominent European scholars’ original texts present the field’s main theoretical and methodological approaches in addition to issues such as families as relationships, parental arrangements, parenting practices and child well-being, family policies in welfare state regimes, family lives in migration, and family trajectories. Presenting cutting-edge research on findings, theoretical interpretations, and solutions to methodological challenges, it is a timely tool for researchers, teachers, students, and family practitioners who wish to familiarise themselves with the state of family sociology in Europe.

Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style

Author : Kateřina Lišková
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108424694
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style written by Kateřina Lišková and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eastern Eurpoe in the Cold War enjoyed its sexual liberation. In Czechoslovakia, this liberation came from above, mediated by experts.

Care Loops and Mobilities in Nordic, Central, and Eastern European Welfare States

Author : Lena Näre
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030928896
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis Care Loops and Mobilities in Nordic, Central, and Eastern European Welfare States by : Lena Näre

Download or read book Care Loops and Mobilities in Nordic, Central, and Eastern European Welfare States written by Lena Näre and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume discusses and analyses the impact of neoliberal policies and ideologies on public and private care practices in Nordic, Central, and East European welfare states. Through new conceptualizations of care practices, chapters take the reader directly into the homes, workplaces, and everyday life of urban and rural residents throughout Europe. The book argues that common neoliberal responses to care crises are not about revaluing care but rather a normalization of precarious work as expressed in moving care from public institutions to families within private homes. Featuring contributions from eight countries, chapters contribute to research on gender, care, migration, and welfare policies by discussing how recent developments in global capitalism and neoliberal policies influence welfare policies and care arrangements in post-egalitarian and post-socialist societies in Europe.

Men, Fathering and the Gender Trap

Author : Katarzyna Suwada
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331947782X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Book Synopsis Men, Fathering and the Gender Trap by : Katarzyna Suwada

Download or read book Men, Fathering and the Gender Trap written by Katarzyna Suwada and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an account of fatherhood and changing parental roles in Sweden and Poland. It uses a comparative perspective to show what men understand a father’s role to be, and how they seek to live up to it. Fathering, the author argues, is a social phenomenon grounded in cultural patterns of parenting, gender roles and models of masculinity, and also shaped by family policy. Being a father today, she demonstrates, is longer connected solely with being the main breadwinner. Rather, it has become increasingly common for fathers to take on duties traditionally regarded as the domain of women. This means that men often face conflicting expectations based on different models of fatherhood. The aim of this thought-provoking book is to track these models, analysing their origins and their consequences for gender order. It will appeal to students and scholars of gender studies, the sociology of families and social policy studies.

Intimacy and mobility in an era of hardening borders

Author : Haldis Haukanes
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526150204
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis Intimacy and mobility in an era of hardening borders by : Haldis Haukanes

Download or read book Intimacy and mobility in an era of hardening borders written by Haldis Haukanes and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of articles by anthropologists and social scientists concerned with gendered labour, care, intimacy and sexuality, in relation to mobility and the hardening of borders in Europe. Interrogating the relation between physical, geopolitical borders and ideological, conceptual boundaries, this book offers a range of vivid and original ethnographic case studies that will capture the imagination of anyone interested in gendered migration, policies of inclusion and exclusion, and regulation of reproduction and intimacy. The first part of the book presents ethnographic and phenomenological discussions of people’s changing lives as they cross borders, how people shift, transgress and reshape moral boundaries of proper gender and kinship behaviour, and moral economies of intimacy and sexuality. In the second section, the focus turns to migrants’ navigation of social and financial services in their destination countries, putting questions about rights and limitations on citizenship at the core. The final part of the book scrutinises policy formation at the level of state, examining the ways that certain domains become politicised and disputed at different historical junctures, while others are left outside of the political.

Rebellious Parents

Author : Katalin Fábián
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253026733
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Rebellious Parents written by Katalin Fábián and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parental activism movements are strengthening around the world and often spark tense personal and political debate. With an emphasis on Russia and Central and Eastern Europe, this collection analyzes formal organizations as well as informal networks and online platforms which mobilize parents to advocate for change on a grassroots level. In doing so, the work collected here explores the interactions between the politics, everyday life, and social activism of mothers and fathers. From fathers' rights movements to natural childbirth to vaccination debates, these essays provide new insight into the identities and strategies applied by these movements as they confront local ideals of gender and family with global ideologies.

The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism

Author : Hana Havelková
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131781908X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Book Synopsis The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism by : Hana Havelková

Download or read book The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism written by Hana Havelková and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though there has been much research on the incomplete emancipation project of state socialism in East and Central Europe, very little has been published on how the state and its institutions conceived of gender as a concept. This book seeks to understand if and how this conceptualization developed in the second half of the twentieth century, and what impact it had on everyday life and on culture. This study moves beyond the dichotomous gender perspectives and towards a nuanced understanding of the diverse discursive negotiations, agendas, actors and agency involved in state-socialist gender practices. Including a detailed case study on Czechoslovakia, contributors explore these issues in a series of independent, but collaboratively developed studies, placing their research in the context of other East Central European countries. The studies collected in the volume bring to light fresh material and consider it from the combined perspective of current gender theory and internal ideological dynamics of state socialism, breaking new ground in gender theory, cultural theory and studies of state socialism. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of gender studies, socialism, Cold-War politics and Eastern European politics and culture.

Early Childhood Policies and Systems in Eight Countries

Author : Tony Bertram
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783319398464
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Early Childhood Policies and Systems in Eight Countries written by Tony Bertram and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides an overview of policy strategies on early childhood education settings (from birth to primary schooling) in eight countries. Data were collected using a policy questionnaire addressed to and completed by the National Research Coordinator(s) (NRC) of Chile, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Italy, Poland, the Russian Federation and the United States. The countries that participated provide interesting illustrations of early childhood education policy in action in a range of diverse contexts. Analysis of the systemic and structural results of ECE policy at national and, where necessary, subnational levels, enables transnational comparisons in policy and systems. Key policy changes, both underway and planned, are documented. These data reveal key findings in each of the five policy areas as covered in the questionnaire and this report: public policy; delivery models and providers; participation and enrollment; quality assurance systems; and expectations for child outcomes. In particular, the study aims to provide meaningful information for countries, states and jurisdictions across the world in relation to early childhood education, mapping the systems, structures and user pathways in place, along with the perceptions of stakeholders about the system, its functioning and impact. This comprehensive assessment of the wider policy contexts and settings for early childhood education includes teacher/practitioner qualifications, pedagogy approaches, and opportunities for professional development. Such information will enable countries to review their early childhood education systems in an international context.

The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume II

Author : Julian L. Garritzmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197601456
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Book Synopsis The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume II by : Julian L. Garritzmann

Download or read book The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume II written by Julian L. Garritzmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Around the turn of the 21st century, new social policies started to develop all around the world. Bolsa Familia in Brazil, Progresa in Mexico, Superémonos in Costa Rica, Juntos in Peru... almost all Latin American countries have developed "conditional cash transfers" (CCTs), a new type of social policy usually conditioning benefits for poor families on their children going to school or attending health checkups. At the same time, some old industrialized countries famously known for being the heaven of the male breadwinner model have introduced surprising innovation in their welfare systems: in Germany massive investment in preschool childcare (Kita) since the early 2000s and the introduction of two "daddy months" in a German parental leave scheme in 2007; in Japan a well-paid parental leave in 2014 and universalization of free preschool education for ages 3-5 in 2017; in South Korea childcare facilities for children below the age of five made free of charge in 2013. Policies aimed at investing in children's care and education and in mothers' labor market participation seem to have bloomed almost everywhere. Worldwide there has been a sharp increase in access to secondary and tertiary education. Youth training programs have spread in many Latin American countries, while European countries have introduced youth guarantees, an innovative inclusive policy for their NEETs (young people not in education, employment, or training)"--

The Challenge of Obesity in the WHO European Region and the Strategies for Response

Author : World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
Publisher : World Health Organization
ISBN 13 : 9289013885
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of Obesity in the WHO European Region and the Strategies for Response written by World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2007 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a brief, clear and easily accessible way, this summary illustrates the dynamics of the obesity epidemic and its impact on public health throughout the WHO European Region, particularly in eastern countries. It describes how factors that increase the risk of obesity are shaped in different settings, such as the family, school, community and workplace. It makes both ethical and economic arguments for accelerating action against obesity, and analyses effective programs and policies in different government sectors, such as education, health, agriculture and trade, urban planning and transport. The summary also describes how to design policies and programs to prevent obesity and how to monitor progress, and calls for specific action by stakeholders: not only government sectors but also the private sector - including food manufacturers, advertisers and traders - and professional consumers' and international and intergovernmental organizations such as the European Union.

Low Fertility, Institutions, and their Policies

Author : Ronald R. Rindfuss
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319329979
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Low Fertility, Institutions, and their Policies written by Ronald R. Rindfuss and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines ten economically advanced countries in Europe and Asia that have experienced different levels of fertility decline. It offers readers a cross-country perspective on the causes and consequences of low birth rates and the different policy responses to this worrying trend. The countries examined are not only diverse geographically, historically, and culturally, but also have different policies and institutions in place. They include six very-low-fertility countries (Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Spain, and Taiwan) and four that have close to replacement-level fertility (United Kingdom, Norway, Canada, and France). Although fertility has gone down in all these countries over the past 50 years, the chapters examine the institutional, policy, and cultural factors that have led some countries to have much lower fertility rates than others. In addition, the final chapter provides a cross-country comparison of individual perceptions about obs tacles to fertility, based on survey data, and government support for families. This broad overview, along with a general introduction, helps put the specific country papers in context. As birth rates continue to decline, there is increasing concern about the fate of social welfare systems, including healthcare and programs for the elderly. This book will help readers to better understand the root causes of such problems with its insightful discussion on how a country’s institutions, policies, and culture shape fertility trends and levels.