Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Part I. The Big Picture: Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Feminization of Poverty
4. 1. Introduction: The Global Feminization of Poverty 3
5. 2. Neoliberalism 1: Discourses of Personhood and Welfare Reform 13
6. 3. Neoliberalism II: The Global Free Market 32
7. 4. Globalization as Hybridity 49
8. Part II. On the Ground: Case Studies in the Articulation of (Gendered) Neoliberalism with (Gendered) Local Culture
9. 5. From New Deal to Bad Deal: Racial and Political Implications of U.S. Welfare Reform 65
10. 6. The Great Undoing: State Formation, Gender Politics, and Social Policy in Canada 90
11. 7. The Responsible Citizen: Creating a New British Welfare Contract 111
12. 8. Paradoxes in "Paradise": The Changing Politics of Women, Welfare, and Work in Australia 128
13. 9. Neoliberalisrn and Tino Rangatiratanga: Welfare State Restructuring in Aotearoa/New Zealand 147
14. 10. Where to Next? Against and Beyond Neoliberalisrn 164
15. Notes 177
16. Bibliography 187
17. Contributors 211
18. Index 213
19. Acknowledgments 217