Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia

Abstract

Introduction: A Nordic model of gender equality? ~ Kari Melby, Christina Wetterberg and Anna-Birte Ravn Part one: Meanings of gender equality in Scandinavian welfare policy: Woman-friendly policy paradoxes? Childcare policies and gender equality visions in Scandinavia ~ Anette Borchorst The claim of economic citizenship: the concept of equality in a historical context ~ Christina Carlsson Wetterberg and Kari Melby Married women's right to pay taxes: debates on gender, economic citizenship, and tax law reform in Denmark, 1945-83 ~ Anna-Birte Ravn Family policy between science and politics ~ A...sa Lundqvist Academic discourse, social policy and the construction of new families ~ Christine Roman Part two: Current challenges: competing discourses on gender equality: The 'new father': gender equality as discursive resource for family policies ~ Trine Annfelt From powerful to powerless fathers: gender equality in family policies on parenthood ~ Charlotte Andersen and Anna-Birte Ravn Dilemmas of citizenship: tensions between gender equality and respect for diversity in the Danish welfare state ~ Birte Siim Women friendly?: Understanding gendered racism in Sweden ~ Diana Mulinari Young women's attitudes towards feminism and gender equality ~ Ann-Dorte Christensen A Scandinavian feminist public sphere: discourses on feminism and gender equality ~ Christina Fiig Postscript: Gender, citizenship and social justice in the Nordic welfare states: a view from the outside ~ Ruth Lister Postscript: Future research on gender equality in the Scandinavian countries ~ Keith Pringle

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