Contents

• Preface
• Introduction: Gender & the Welfare State
  • THEME AND POSING OF PROBLEM
  • SOURCES
  • METHOD
  • THE WELFARE STATE AND THE WELFARE-TRIANGLE
• Feminist Interpretation of the Scandinavian Welfare State
  • WELFARE-STATE RESEARCH IN SCANDINAVIA
  • WOMEN AND THE WELFARE STATE
  • FROM OPPRESSION TO POSSIBILITIES
• Feminist Scholars define Maternalism and Maternalist Policy
  • THEDA SKOCPOL DEFINES THE TERM MATERNALIST POLICY AND SETS OFF A DEBATE
  • DEBATE BETWEEN LINDA GORDON AND THEDA SKOCPOL
  • SETH KOVEN AND SONYA MICHEL
  • MOLLY LADD-TAYLOR
  • ANN TAYLOR ALLEN
  • CONCLUDING REMARKS
• Maternalism as a Historical Concept and its Consequences
  • THE RELATION BETWEEN MATERNALISM AS A HISTORICAL CONCEPT AND GENDER AS A CATEGORY OF HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
  • CONSEQUENCES: -DECONSTRUCTION BY CREATING AND REINFORCING NEW/OLD BINARY OPPOSITIONS?
  • CONCLUDING REMARKS
• Conclusion
• Bibliography