Engendering social policy

The changing worlds of work and families ; Sex, gender and health : a new approach ; City A/genders ; She's there for me : caring in a rural community ; Child protection policy and practice : women in the front line ; The criminalization of female poverty ; Domestic violence policy in the 1990's ; Fatherhood, children and violence : placing the UK in an international context ; Mainstreaming equality ; Dangerous and different : reconstructions of madness in the 1990's and the role of mental health policy

This book explores how social policy constructs gendered relations, the difference/equality debate, representations and discourses of gender in social policy and the tensions and issues associated with restructuring domestic relations.