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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables ix
4. Preface xi
5. 1 Making Gender, Making Policy 1
6. 2 On Creating Gender 19
7. 3 Toward a Suitably Complex Framework of Analysis 35
8. 4 Unfolding Gender Paradigms: A History of Sexual Politics in Welfare Policy 69
9. 5 Making Masculine Mothers: Vanquishing Feminality 107
10. 6 Policy Casts Fathers: Deadbeats and Scofflaws, Good Guys and Promise Keepers 139
11. 7 Gender Ideology in Practice: The Case of Wisconsin’s Legislature 169
12. 8 Measuring Gender’s Influence in Congressional Policymaking 187
13. 9 Recognizing the Sexual Politics of Policy 219
14. Appendixes 231
15. Bibliography 235
16. Index 243
17. About the Book 261