The Legal Tender of Gender: Law, Welfare, and the Regulation of Women's Poverty

Extensive Welfare, law and policy reforms characterised the making and unmarking of Keynesian states in the twentieth century. This collection highlights the gendered nature of these regulatory shifts and, specifically, the roles played by women as reformers, welfare workers and welfare recipients, in the development of welfare states historically. The contributors are leading feminist socio-legal scholars from a range of disciplines in Canada, the United States and Israel. Collectively, thei…