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Anne Digby and John Stewart (eds.), Gender, Health and Welfare, Routledge, London, 1996, 239 pp., hard £40.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1997

SARAH PAYNE
Affiliation:
School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol.

Abstract

This is an edited collection of papers which originated in a conference of the same title in 1993. The editors provide an opening chapter outlining the major themes and approach of the book, and there follow a further eight chapters from a range of contributors. In their opening chapter the editors write that the volume is concerned with ‘the exploration of a number of themes, including the gendered allocation of welfare resources in society and the role of family and state in influencing this division; the effect of gender in the creation and adoption of policies concerning health and welfare by pressure groups, political parties, and government at both local and national levels; and the extent to which the balance of voluntary and statutory bodies alters the nature of welfare, not least because of the differential involvement of men and women’ (p. 1).

Type
Book Review
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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